SpaceX launches the AST SpaceMobile satellite and an additional 34 Starlink satellites.


AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite and 34 more Starlink satellites were launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX into low-Earth orbit.

About eight minutes later, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket touched down on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship,

completing the record-breaking 14th mission for a first-stage SpaceX booster.

Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and eight Starlink missions were previously launched

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Friday's tweet from SpaceX CEO Elon Musk described the mission as "one of our most complicated."

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An online tracker shows that 2,470 of the 3,250 satellites that SpaceX has launched into low-Earth orbit are currently operating.

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In May 2019, the business put its first 60 satellites into orbit.

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