SpaceX said it would be the 17th flight of the Falcon 9 first-stage booster supporting this mission. The booster has previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat

SpaceX completed back to back missions of two Falcon 9 rockets over the weekend, delivering 22 Starlink satellites and Astranis's One to Many Mission into orbit, the 132nd and 133rd missions of the year.

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignites each its engines just as an abort is called at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday, Dec. 20, 2024. This year, we learned that our Neanderthal cousins were a lot like us, despite treading their own path that ended in extinction.