The first installment of Falcon 9 automatically descends on the Just Read the Instructions floating platform in the Atlantic.
American company SpaceX has launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which will deliver the Globalstar FM15 communications satellite into orbit. The broadcast took place on the company’s website on the evening of Sunday, June 19th.
The launch from the spaceport at Cape Canaveral in Florida took place at 00:27 US East Coast time (07:27 Kyiv time – ed.).
The satellite of American communications company Globalstar, whose operational life is 15 years, will join the constellation of 24 similar devices in low Earth orbit.
The first phase of the Falcon 9 has previously been used in eight launches. About eight minutes after launch, he automatically descended to the floating platform Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.
On June 18, SpaceX launched fifty Starlink satellites into space. This is the 49th launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of this project.
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Source: korrespondent
