SpaceX launches 88 satellites on a single rocket, Transporter-2 mission
Kathmandu, July 1. Elon Musk owned private company SpaceX on Wednesday successfully launched 88 little satellites in its private Falcon 9 rocket.
The Transporter-2 ‘’ride-share’’ mission was launched from its own Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral in Florida. The rocket carried 85 commercial and government spacecraft and three Starlink satellites.
Ten minutes after the launch, the first stage booster returned for a pinpoint landing on SpaceX’s Landing Zone 1.
This was the second rideshare mission carried out by SpaceX. Earlier in January, the space giant sent a record-breaking number of 143 little satellites on the same Falcon-9 rocket. The mission was called “Transporter-1”.
In November last year, SpaceX launched a Falcon rocket on a six-month “Crew-1” mission with an attached Crew Dragon capsule that carried 4 astronauts to the International Space Station. This year, the company conducted its first crewed flight mission called “Demo-2,” with two astronauts into space.
SpaceX is also working on a large starship that can carry 100 passengers to the moon and other planets at a single launch.
Here is the live coverage of the Transporter-2 mission.
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