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Launch of Starlink Group 17-48
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg in California at 0301 UTC, or 2001 Friday evening local time (PDT). This was carrying Starlink Group 17-48, a batch of 24 satellites for the constellation. It was the 664th flight of the Falcon 9, and the 35th flight of booster B1071, which successfully landed on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. [Source: SpaceX]
Death of Aleksandr Aleksandrov
Bulgarian cosmonaut Aleksandr Panayotov Aleksandrov has passed away at the age of 74. As part of the Soviet Union's Interkosmos program he was selected for the backup crew of the Soyuz 33 mission to the Salyut 6 space station in 1978, but his actual first spaceflight was a nine-day trip to Mir space station aboard Soyuz TM-5 ten years later in 1988, becoming the joint 205th human to achieve orbit (206th above 100km, 212th above 50mi) and the second Bulgarian to visit space. [Source: Rumen Radev]
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