SpaceX launches Starlink batch from California, 75th orbital mission of 2023

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 21 Starlink satellites to orbit from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday at 4:23 a.m. EDT (0823 GMT; 1:23 a.m. local California time) on Oct. 21, 2023. Full Story: https://www.space.com/spacex-starlink-launch-group-7-5 "The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth safely as planned, touching down at sea on the SpaceX drone ship Of Course I Still Love You about 8.5 minutes after launch," according to Space.com. Credit: SpaceX