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Luxembourg, 26 November 2020. – The 100th The flight of a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday evening set a new record for the reuse of a first stage: it was the seventh time SpaceX flew the booster into space and returned it to Earth.
The vehicle delivered another batch of 60 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 separated from the upper stage shortly after takeoff from Cape Canaveral and turned to land on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk expects the latest version of the Booster Falcon 9, known as the B1049, to fly up to ten times without any major overhaul and up to 100 times with regular renovations.
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