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SpaceX’s Falcon 9 has now launched 200 times ahead of Starship debut appeared on interestingengineering.com by Chris Young.
SpaceX launches Falcon 9 to orbit 200 times
The reusable Falcon 9 booster used on this particular mission was carrying out its fifth mission. The first stage performed a smooth landing on SpaceX’s drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas roughly nine minutes after it took to the skies. Roughly an hour after the launch, the Falcon 9’s second stage released all 53 Starlink satellites.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship pic.twitter.com/9a56rWumR1
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 2, 2023
The booster previously launched SpaceX’s CRS-24 cargo mission to the International Space Station (ISS) in December 2021 and the OneWeb 1 flight in December 2022, as well as a number of other missions. That OneWeb mission sent 40 satellites to orbit after Russia pulled out of an agreement with London-based OneWeb following sanctions levied against the country’s aerospace industry after its invasion of Ukraine.
Since its first launch in June 2010, Falcon 9 has become the cornerstone of SpaceX’s operations. The peak of the rocket’s achievements arguably came in May 2020, when SpaceX’s Demo-2 mission for NASA launched the first humans from U.S. soil in almost a decade. Since that time, it has sent several crew missions to the International Space Station (ISS).
SpaceX is on course for another record-breaking year
Impressively, SpaceX’s latest mission is the fourth time the rocket company has launched a batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit.
The company has launched more than 3,800 of the satellites so far, and it has permission to lift another 12,000 or so to space. The space firm won’t stop there, however, as it has also applied to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) for approval to deploy a further 30,000 Starlink satellites — the move prompted a group of scientists to organize against SpaceX’s “unsustainable” launch plans.
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