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1 of 2 | The reusable booster rocket 1076 (L) descends backmost to Earth aft launching a Falcon 9 rocket (R) from Cape Canaveral, Fla. connected Sunday, April 28th, 2024. Courtesy of SpaceX
April 28 (UPI) -- Atop a cardinal pounds of liquid propellant, SpaceX launched its adjacent successful a bid of Falcon 9 rockets riding a file orangish occurrence and exhaust from Cape Canaveral astatine 6:08 p.m. EDT Sunday, rumbling retired complete nan Florida Gulf Coast and carrying its adjacent batch of of 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
It's occupation done, nan reusable substance cell, besides known arsenic nan rocket's first shape booster, descended while being guided by short rocket bursts, past landed precisely successful nan mediate of nan drone vessel "Just Read nan Instructions," stationed successful nan Atltantic to person it conscionable 8 and a half minutes aft nan compartment had spent its substance and launched nan Falcon 9.
"13 times up. 13 times down," a unrecorded NASA commentator said of nan rocket booser 1076, nan 13th clip nan reusable booster has sent a Falcon 9 to nan separator of abstraction to deploy different cluster of Starlink net satellites.
This was nan 43rd motorboat of a Falcon 9 rocket successful 2024 and nan mission, called Starlink 6-54, was nan 29th motorboat of Starlink satellites this year.
A Starlink satellite has a lifespan ofabout 5 years. SpaceX has said it intends to person " 42,000 satellites successful a "megaconstellation." Sunday's deployment will adhd to nan astir 5,700 satellites already successful orbit.
The Sunday motorboat was nan 2nd successful nether 12 hours astatine nan Cape. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 connected Saturday nighttime delivering a cluster of European Space Agency Galileo L12 satellites to orbit. They are an summation to nan ESA's existing 28 outer constellation.
The Galileo satellites supply world positioning services which are compatible pinch U.S. GPS systems, but besides supply work to to Russia's world navigation system.
It's occupation done, nan reusable substance cell, besides known arsenic nan rocket's first shape booster, descended while being guided by short rocket bursts, past landed precisely successful nan mediate of nan drone vessel "Just Read nan Instructions," stationed successful nan Atltantic to person it conscionable 8 and a half minutes aft nan compartment had spent its substance and launched nan Falcon 9.
"13 times up. 13 times down," a unrecorded NASA commentator said of nan rocket booser 1076, nan 13th clip nan reusable booster has sent a Falcon 9 to nan separator of abstraction to deploy different cluster of Starlink net satellites.
This was nan 43rd motorboat of a Falcon 9 rocket successful 2024 and nan mission, called Starlink 6-54, was nan 29th motorboat of Starlink satellites this year.
A Starlink satellite has a lifespan ofabout 5 years. SpaceX has said it intends to person " 42,000 satellites successful a "megaconstellation." Sunday's deployment will adhd to nan astir 5,700 satellites already successful orbit.
The Sunday motorboat was nan 2nd successful nether 12 hours astatine nan Cape. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 connected Saturday nighttime delivering a cluster of European Space Agency Galileo L12 satellites to orbit. They are an summation to nan ESA's existing 28 outer constellation.
The Galileo satellites supply world positioning services which are compatible pinch U.S. GPS systems, but besides supply work to to Russia's world navigation system.
