Falcon 9 lifts off with 27 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg

Falcon 9 lifted off from Vandenberg Space Launch Complex 4 East at 9:04 p.m. PDT on Oct. 30 (04:04 UTC on Oct. 31) with 27 Starlink satellites on the Starlink 15-18 mission. Spaceflight Now reported that booster B1093, on its 18th flight, landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You about 8.5 minutes later, and called the flight the 700th Falcon 9 launch. SpaceX's mission page still describes the flight as targeting and lists satellite deployment at about 62 minutes; the reports opened confirmed liftoff and landing and did not confirm deployment.

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