SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2 FT Block 5 rocket from from Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (just next door to Cape Canaveral), in Florida, USA,at 0727 GMT on 26 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying the a Crew Dragon (Endurance) spacecraft on the SpaceX Crew 7 mission, the seventh crew rotation mission of a Crew Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS). The reusable B1081 first stage (on its first mission) landed back on Landing Zone 1 (LZ-1) at the Kennedy Space Center.
Crew Dragon on Crew 7 mission approaches the ISS. Courtesy: NASA
The crew carried consisted of Jasmin Moghbeli, a US/NASA astronaut who was commander of the spacecraft, Andreas Mogensen, a Danish/ESA astronaut who was pilot, Satoshi Furukawa, a Japanese mission specialist astronaut, and Konstantin Borosov, a Russian/Roscosmos cosmonaut flying to the ISS as a mission specialist. He was flying as part of a Crew Dragon-for-Soyuz seat swap agreement between NASA and Roscosmos. The Crew Dragon docked at the ISS Harmony Zenith port at 1316 GMT on 27 August 2023.
SpaceX successfully launched a Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rocket from Cape Canaveral., USA at 0105 GMT on 27 August 2023. The vehicle was carrying Starlink Group 6-11, a total of 22 V2 Mini Starlink satellites for the second generation constellation. The B1080 reusable first stage (on its third flight) landed on the drone barge “Just Read the Instructions” located down range in the Atlantic.
Falcon 9v1.2FT Block 5 rockets lifts Starlink Group 6-11 into orbit. Courtesy: SpaceX
