SpaceX’s Drone Zooms In On Rocket Landing At ~1,100 Km/h For Stunning Views!

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SpaceX is continuing its aggressive launch cadence as it launched yet another Falcon 9 mission from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida earlier today. The mission saw SpaceX reuse a Falcon 9 rocket for the thirteenth time, and the rocket made a land landing that was captured by a drone as it approached the ground. The mission was for SpaceX's Starlink rival OneWeb, with the firm launching 40 satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO) as part of its third mission with SpaceX.

The mission took off at 2:13 pm eastern time to mark OneWeb's 17th overall launch as part of its LEO constellation of 648 satellites. With today's mission, OneWeb has launched 614 satellites into orbit. Most of these launches have occurred on Russia's Soyuz spacecraft, but OneWeb was forced to switch gears early last year after the Russian invasion of Ukraine. Since then, the firm has launched two missions on India's LVM-3 rocket and three on the Falcon 9. Its first Falcon 9 launch was in December 2022, and the second occurred at the start of this year.

Today's launch saw SpaceX maintain not only a strong launch cadence for 2023, but it also marked another time that the firm had used a Falcon 9 rocket for the thirteenth time. The launch was a typical Falcon 9 affair, with the rocket successfully lifting off, crossing the speed of sound, and separating from its second stage.

This mission was also the fourth one of this year when SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 boosters on land. Most of the land landings have taken place from the Cape, except SpaceX's Falcon Heavy launch, which took place from the Kennedy Space