San Francisco, Aug 28 : Elon Musk’s company SpaceX has launched another 54 of its Starlink broadband satellites in orbit and also landed an unmanned rocket on a ship at sea on the night of Saturday.According to space.com Space.com, a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, carrying 54 Starlink spacecraft, took off of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida Saturday at 11:41 p.m.EDT (0341 GMT) on August 28.
This was around an hour later than originally scheduled in the meantime, as SpaceX was waiting for some bad weather to be cleared.
In less than nine minutes after the launch the Falcon 9’s first stage was brought down to Earth to land on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
Later, the upper part of the Falcon 9 launched the Starlink satellites into space, eventually placing the entire 54 of them into low Earth orbit around 15 minutes after takeoff.
“Squeezing additional performance out of Falcon 9 — close to 17 metric tons into a useful orbit with fairing and booster that are reusable!” Musk tweeted following the launch.
According to the report SpaceX’s most recent mission SpaceX was on the 38th of 2022, eclipsing SpaceX’s previous record for the most orbital missions in an entire calendar year.It was the 24th launch that was that was specifically focused on Starlink the SpaceX’s huge broadband constellation.
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