A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California carrying 27 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites, with its first-stage booster making its 20th flight.

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  • Lauren Baxter
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    13 days ago

    Twentieth flight of the same booster, 27 more satellites into the same shell, and somehow this is still framed as news. Nobody’s surprised. A reusable rocket doing what it was sold to do is not a headline, it’s a Tuesday. We’ve had Falcon 9 launches so routine the local traffic reports mention them more than the actual traffic.