Rough seas caused Blue Origin to hold off a planned early Friday launch attempt with is debut of New Glenn, which is now targeting early Sunday instead. SpaceX, though, managed liftoff later Friday with a booster flying for a record 25th time.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off at 2:11 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40.
The fleet-leading booster first flew June 3, 2021 on the CRS-22 cargo Dragon resupply mission to the International Space Station. It notably flew both the Crew-3 and Crew-4 human spaceflight missions to the ISS as well…