After a short weather related delay, SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral, USA at 0536 GMT on 5 October 2023 after short delay due to poor weather conditions at the launch site. The launch vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-21, a total of 22 v2 Mini satellites for the second-generation Starlink satellite constellation. The B1076 reusable first stage, on its eighth flight, successfully landed on the drone barge Just Read the Instructions located down range in the Atlantic.
All 22 Starlinks spacecraft were successfully deployed into LEO 65 minutes after launch. This was SpaceX’s 70th orbital mission to date in 2023.