SpaceX caps 2022 launch season with successful Starlink launch.

SpaceX's final Starlink launch of 2022 streaks over a first-generation Starlink receiver dish.  Two-photo composite by Michael Seeley / We Report Space
SpaceX's final Starlink launch of 2022 streaks over a first-generation Starlink receiver dish. Two-photo composite by Michael Seeley / We Report Space

Cape Canaveral S.F.S. FL. – In the early morning hours of December 28, 2022, SpaceX once again lit the Space Coast skies with an additional launch of 54 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit with mission 5-1. The launch came at 4:34 AM EST. from Launch Complex 40. In 2022, SpaceX averaged more than a launch a week between both the Florida launch sites and Vandenberg S.F.S. with this the sixtieth in 2022. 

Shortly after launch this previously flown booster made a successful landing on the recovery ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas.


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