Completing the 300th mission for Starlink, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Santa Barbara County on Saturday morning placing 24 more satellites in space.
The two-stage rocket built by SpaceX blasted off at 10:55 a.m. from Space Launch Complex-4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base.
The rocket’s first-stage booster successfully touched down on the droneship in the Pacific Ocean for what was the 28th launch and landing.
That makes it among the most traveled boosters in the Falcon fleet with one in Florida having flown 30 times.
The company is working to certify Falcon’s first-stage boosters to fly 40 times or more.
SpaceX now has achieved 504 landings for rockets launched from Vandenberg and other launch sites.
The firm’s reuse of the first-stage booster cuts costs for placing satellites in space and helps trim the time between missions.
Recycling the first-stage booster also means they’re not dumped into the ocean once their chores are done.
In addition to reusing the first-stage boosters, SpaceX also captures the two halves of the payload fairings to fly again on future missions.
More than 8,380 Starlink satellites remain in orbit, but the total launched topped 9,680, according to the online tally by astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, also an astronautics historian.
Another batch of Starlink satellites will travel to space as soon as Wednesday from Vandenberg with the mission planned between 8:41 a.m. and 12:41 p.m., according to SpaceX.