SpaceX launches 12,000-pound Inmarsat satellite on 2nd mission of day, nails landing

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the Inmarsat I-6 F2 satellite from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Feb. 17, 2023. "The roughly 12,000-pound (5,500 kilograms) I-6 F2 is headed for geostationary orbit, about 22,200 miles (35,700 kilometers) above Earth," according to Space.com.

The rocket's first stage landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean several minutes after separation. Earlier in the day, SpaceX launched 51 Starlink satellites from California.

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