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SpaceX launched another 47 internet-beaming satellites from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday morning.
The event marked the 11th successful landing for this specific Falcon 9 booster, tying it for the record of most flights with another Falcon 9 in the SpaceX fleet. In the past, the booster that lifted today's payload has taken the Transporter 2 into space , the Turksat 5A , and launched the GPS III SV03 mission — in addition to seven other earlier Starlink payloads, according to SpaceX officials on the live stream of the launch.
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