American private aviation company SpaceX announced the 400th successful launch of the serial launch vehicle Hawk 9. Another group of 24 Starlink Internet satellites has been launched into Earth orbit. The launch took place at 11:41 pm EST on November 26 from the Kennedy Space Center launch pad in Florida.

This was the 400th successful launch of the Falcon 9 series rocket since its debut in 2010, SpaceX announced on its X social media page.

The first stage of the launch vehicle returned to Earth 8 minutes after launch and made a successful landing on the floating barge A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 375th successful landing of the Falcon 9 first stage and the 15th successful landing for a particular first stage, according to a company statement. In eleven of the fifteen launches, this booster was used in missions starlink.

since the beginning of the year SpaceX It has launched 117 Falcon 9 rockets. Across 81 launches, the company has launched more than 1,700 Internet satellites into Earth orbit. starlink. According to satellite tracking expert and astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell (Jonathan McDowell), the Starlink mega-satellite constellation – the largest ever created – currently consists of approximately 6,700 active spacecraft.