A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully deploys a Global Positioning System satellite on Friday, and another launch on Saturday deployed 27 Starlink communications satellites. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI. Photo by Joe Marino/UPI | License Photo
May 31 (UPI) -- SpaceX ended May with another successful launch of its Falcon 9 rocket Saturday afternoon at its West Coast launch facility at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The launch occurred at 1:10 p.m. PDT with a payload of 27 Starlink satellites bound for low-Earth orbit, Spaceflight Now reported.
It was the Falcon 9's 16th successful launch and the 25th for its first-stage booster rocket.
The booster rocket successfully landed on the "Of Course I Still Love You" drone ship in the Pacific Ocean.
