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SpaceX was successful in its most recent Starlink launch, which saw thirteen more satellites with Direct-to-Cell capabilities make their way into low Earth orbit on Tuesday evening.The launch took place at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California around 8:40 p.m. PDT. It was the 20th orbital launch from Vandenberg so far in 2024.SpaceX utilized Falcon 9 first-stage booster with tail number B1082 for this mission, its fifth. It has been called upon on three previous occasions to launch Starlink Satellites into orbit, as well as the launch of the United States Space Force-62 mission, which took place in April.It carried the first Weather System Follow-on Microwave satellite, which can sense, store, and transmit microwave raw sensor data to “enable derivation...

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