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On Saturday, AST SpaceMobile's BlueWalker 3 satellite

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and 34 more Starlink satellites were launched by Elon Musk's SpaceX into low-Earth orbit.d

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Due to weather, the satellites were launched by a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 39A

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at Florida's Kennedy Space Center at 9:20 p.m.

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About eight minutes later, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket touched down on the A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship

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completing the record-breaking 14th mission for a first-stage SpaceX booster.

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Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-II, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and

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eight Starlink missions were previously launched using the Falcon 9's first stage

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