On Tuesday, 24th November 2021 at 9:13 p.m. EST, SpaceX launched its sixteenth Starlink mission. This was done from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.

The Falcon 9 first stage rocket booster that supported this mission previously flew on six other missions: the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission in September 2018; the Iridium-8 mission in January 2019; and four Starlink missions in May 2019, January 2020, June 2020, and August 2020.

Following stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon 9’s first stage on the ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ droneship; which was located in the Atlantic Ocean. One half of Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported a mission, and the other half previously supported two.

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Last month, SpaceX launched its ‘Better Than Nothing Beta’ test program. Service invites were sent to a portion of those who requested availability updates on Starlink.com and who live in serviceable areas.

A few weeks ago, Canada granted Starlink regulatory approval and SpaceX has now rolled out the service to parts of southern Canada. If you would like to learn more about the service, please visit the Reddit AMA page that SpaceX engineers recently participated in.

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