This is the 49th launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project.
American company SpaceX on Friday, June 17, made another launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with a batch of Starlink mini-satellites. The broadcast took place on the company’s Twitter page.
Thus, the rocket was launched from the launch complex 39A (LC-39A) of the Space Center. John F. Kennedy, Florida, at 19:09 Kyiv time. He launched 53 satellites into orbit.
After approximately 15.5 minutes of launch, the satellites were reported to have detached from the second phase of the rocket into an elliptical transfer orbit up to 340 km altitude. After SpaceX engineers evaluate their performance, the satellites using their own ion engines will rise into a regular orbit with an altitude of approximately 540 km.
At the same time, the reusable first phase of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, used for launch for the 13th time, approximately 8.5 minutes after launch, made a controlled vertical landing on a floating drone platform A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean – about 650 km from the cosmodrome.
As you know, this is the 49th launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project.
lift off! pic.twitter.com/28eNKniMqe
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 17, 2022
The first phase of Falcon 9 landed with A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship-marking SpaceX’s first 13th flight of a first stage booster and 100th successful mission with a proven orbital class rocket flight! pic.twitter.com/6XjfcOPuUh
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 17, 2022
Watch Falcon 9 launch 53 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit → https://t.co/FHNtCC2xqJ https://t.co/2GBQjLMNTt
– SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 17, 2022
As reported, in February, space company SpaceX lost about 40 Starlink Internet satellites out of 49 launched into orbit.
Starlink Ukraine has received an operator’s license
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Source: korrespondent
