SpaceX Starlink 100 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 22 August 2023

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 21 Starlink satellites (Starlink-100 / Starlink 7-1) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, on 22 August 2023, at 09:37 UTC (02:37 PDT). Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, stationed in the Pacific Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1061) previously supported fourteen missions: Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, Transporter-4, Transporter-5, Globalstar-2 FM15, EROS C-3 and five Starlink missions. Credit: SpaceX