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Starlink Group 4-2

Success
SEP 11202201:20:00 UTC

B1058's 14th flight - the first Falcon 9 booster to reach that mark - carried 34 v1.5 Starlinks and AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 prototype into the 53.2° shell. The dual-destination deployment required the upper stage to fire five times, more than any prior SpaceX mission: two burns to place BlueWalker 3 at ~513 km, two more to drop the Starlinks to ~330 km, and a final deorbit burn.

BlueWalker 3 carries a 693 sq ft phased-array antenna designed to connect unmodified consumer cell phones directly to the satellite - an early demonstrator of the direct-to-cell architecture.

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Booster

B1058.14

Landed on drone ship · ASOG

Payloads · 2

  • 01

    Starlink: Group 4-2 (34 satellites)

    Communications

  • 02

    BlueWalker-3

    Communications / Technology demonstration