SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Thursday for a record-breaking 36th flight of a single booster, extending its lead in orbital rocket reusability [1]. The mission, designated Starlink 10-42, deployed 29 broadband satellites into low Earth orbit, pushing the total Starlink constellation past 10,700 active spacecraft. Booster B1067 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 5:25 a.m. EDT, flew a northeastern trajectory, and landed on a droneship in the Atlantic. The turnaround between flights was just 30 days and 23 hours.
SpaceX has now flown Falcon 9 rockets 674 times since the vehicle's 2010 debut, with 671 full mission successes [2]. No other orbital-class rocket in history has been reused more than a handful of times.