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Falcon 9 Rocket Sets New Payload Weight Record During SpaceX Starlink Launch - Gizmodo
Jan 26, 2023 46 secs
The first stage booster, partaking in its ninth launch, returned to Earth some nine minutes later, landing safely on the Just Read the Instructions droneship stationed northeast of the Bahamas.

The previous payload weight record for Falcon 9 was set in August 2022, when the rocket lifted 16.7 metric tons to orbit.

This shell is meant for the company’s second-generation Starlinks, leading to considerable confusion as to which kind of satellite is going up these days.

Back in December, when SpaceX sent the first batch of Starlinks to the Gen2 shell, many spaceflight experts assumed that the company was sending the miniature Gen2s to space.

Sleuthing by Harvard-Smithsonian astronomer Jonathan McDowell put these rumors to rest, however, as he learned that SpaceX is still launching V1.5 Starlinks to space.

And it doesn’t help that SpaceX does not respond to questions from the media; so much for CEO Elon Musk’s stated obsession with transparency.

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