SpaceX Starlink 114 launch and Falcon 9 first stage landing, 18 October 2023

A SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched 22 Starlink satellites (Starlink-114 / Starlink 6-23) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on 18 October 2023, at 00:39 UTC (17 October, at 20:39 EDT). Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage landed on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage (B1062) previously supported fifteen missions: GPS III SV04, GPS III SV05, Inspiration4, Ax-1, Nilesat 301, OneWeb 17, ARABSAT BADR-8 and eight Starlink missions. Credit: SpaceX