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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket nails launch and landing on record-tying 13th mission It was the fiftieth launch of Starlink thus far. On Thursday morning (July 7), a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched for the 13th time in a row, tying the previous record. At 9:11 a.m. EDT (13:11 GMT) on Thursday, a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 53 of SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth 8.5 minutes after liftoff and landed on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions, which was positioned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of Florida. Source SpaceX's broadcast was cut short before the rocket's upper stage successfully launched all 53 of the onboard Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, but that achievement also happened without a hitch, according to company representatives on Twitter . It was the first stage of this Falcon 9's 13th mission, matching a record for r...