Starlink Group 4-2
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.
LIFTOFF
SEP 11 2022launched fromLC-39AKennedy
aboardFalcon 9 B5intoLEO
Booster
B1058.14
Landed on drone ship · ASOG
Payloads · 2
- 01
Starlink: Group 4-2 (34 satellites)
Communications
- 02
BlueWalker-3
Communications / Technology demonstration
