Starlink Launch 27

B1051's tenth flight - the first Falcon 9 booster ever to reach double digits - lifted 60 v1.0 Starlinks into the 53° shell. By this point the booster's exterior had turned almost entirely black from heat staining across its prior nine missions.

B1051 had opened its career on Demo-1 in March 2019, the first uncrewed Crew Dragon test flight to the International Space Station. After that landmark mission it was reassigned to Starlink duty, eventually logging more flights than any other booster in the fleet.