Starlink Group 6-32
B1058's 19th flight - setting a new booster reuse record - carried 23 v2 mini Starlinks into the 43° shell. The booster's career began on Demo-2 in May 2020, the first crewed Crew Dragon flight and the first crewed launch from the United States since the Space Shuttle era.
B1058 landed cleanly on Just Read the Instructions, but was lost days later when rough seas roughly 100 miles from Port Canaveral prevented the recovery crew from securing it to the deck; it toppled and broke apart. SpaceX had retrofitted most of the active fleet with self-leveling landing legs after an earlier at-sea stability incident, but judged B1058 too old to be worth the upgrade. It was the end of the most storied booster in the fleet.
LIFTOFF
DEC 23 2023launched fromSLC-40Canaveral
aboardFalcon 9 B5intoLEO
Booster
B1058.19
Partial on drone ship · JRTI
Payload
Starlink: Group 6-32 (23 satellites)
Communications
