Starlink-12.11 & Starlink-12.12 SpaceX missions
Some beauty from SpaceX’s 3rd launch of the year, Starlink-12.11, which took place on January 8th.
The rest of the photos in this series are here:
This is not the last launch at the moment. And not the most interesting. It just took great pictures. But since then, there have been two more. And the launch of Starlink-12.12 is really remarkable that the first stage in it was used 25 times, and successfully landed on a floating platform — now it is floating home. 25 times is a record for reusability. Although, according to the developers, this is far from the limit. The company intends to increase the reusability of the first stages of the Falcon 9 carrier as long as it is technically possible and economically viable, continuing to test reusable technologies in launches of missions to launch satellites of the Starlink group. According to various estimates, the limit of reuse of the same Falcon 9 booster is somewhere around 40 or even 100 flights.
