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CAPE CANAVERAL AIR FORCE STATION, FL – The second blastoff in SpaceX’s burgeoning Starlink constellation with 60 Starlink broadband satellites put on a stunning sky show Monday morning, Nov. 11 on Veterans Day – with the next generation payload bolted atop the first ever quadruply launched Falcon 9 first stage booster and first ever re-flown payload fairings encapsulating the payload stack thundering to space from Florida’s Space Coast.

The Starlink mission thus amasses a series of truly significant milestones in spaceflight history.
Liftoff of the Starlink mission took place at 9:56 a.m. EST (1456 GMT) during an instantaneous launch window Monday, Nov 11 from Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL.

Eight minutes later the Falcon 9 first stage successfully made a precision rocket assisted intact and upright touchdown on the ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ (OCISLY) droneship prepositioned in the Atlantic Coast off the Carolinas.

This Starlink mission counts as the heaviest ever payload lofted by a Falcon 9.

Enjoy our second and much enlarged Space UpClose eyewitness gallery of photo and video imagery from the launch and prelaunch activities.

Check back as the gallery grows.

And check all our Starlink articles and more.

Also watch for my follow-up articles and galleries about the arrival of the recovered 1st stage into Port Canaveral on Friday, Nov. 15 atop OCISLY 4 days after liftoff – as well as the craning off OCISLY and landing leg retraction work.

Watch my Starlink launch video here:

Video Caption: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying second set of 60 SpaceX built Starlink high speed broadband satellites lifts off at 9:56 a.m. ET on Nov 11, 2019 from Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL on Starlink mission – as seen in this video camera stationed at pad. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com

Stay tuned here for Ken’s continuing Earth and Planetary science and human spaceflight news: www.kenkremer.com –www.spaceupclose.com – twitter @ken_kremer – email: ken at kenkremer.com

Dr. Kremer is a research scientist and journalist based in the KSC area, active in outreach and interviewed regularly on TV and radio about space topics.
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Ken’s photos are for sale and he is available for lectures and outreach events

Ken’s upcoming outreach events:

Nov 23, 1 PM, Titusville, FL: “50th Anniversary Apollo 12 and NASA’s Human Return to the Moon with Project Artemis” at American Space Museum, Titusville, FL. Lecture free. Open to the public.
Website: www.spacewalkoffame.org
www.spacewalkoffame.org/event/cosmic-christmas-yard-sale-and-apollo12-50th

Dec 3/4: 7 PM, Quality Inn Kennedy Space Center, Titusville, FL. “SpaceX CRS-19 Launch to ISS Dec 4.” Free. In hotel lobby