SpaceX Launches 29-Starlink Mission on President’s Day, Lands Booster at Sea

SpaceX launched the Starlink 6-103 mission from Cape Canaveral before dawn on President’s Day, deploying 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit with a Falcon 9 booster that landed on a droneship; weather concerns were monitored but did not prevent liftoff. It marks SpaceX’s 14th Starlink launch this year, expanding the constellation to about 9,600 satellites, and logging the 142nd drone-ship landing and the 572nd booster landing to date.