Anjali Sharma
GG News Bureau
NEW YORK, 6th March. The Company said on Tuesday that SpaceX’s Falcon-9 rocket has successfully aced three major launches all under a span of 20 hours.
Elon Musk’s company first sent a four-member crew to the International Space Station on Monday morning.
It launched 53 satellites on Transporter-10 rideshare flight, and 23 Starlink satellites took off to orbit early Tuesday morning, the company stated.
“Three Falcon 9 launches in 20 hours, carrying to orbit: 4 crewmembers headed to the @Space_Station; 53 rideshare spacecraft; 23 @Starlink satellites,” the company wrote in a post on X on Tuesday.
SpaceX is part of the astronaut launch services for NASA from 2020, carried the crew-8 mission to ISS at 10:53 p.m. EST Sunday (9.23 am, Monday IST) from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
NASA astronauts Matthew Dominick, Michael Barratt, and Jeanette Epps, and Roscosmos cosmonaut Alexander Grebenkin are Crew-8.
This is the first space flight for Epps, Dominick and Grebyonkin and the third stint on the ISS for Barratt.
According to news reports, SpaceX’s Transporter-10 mission lifted off at 5:05 p.m. ET on Monday (3:35 am Tuesday, IST) from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The mission includes 53 payloads, which were placed into various orbits including True Anomaly’s Jackal spacecraft, a wide range of cubesats and nanosats, and the Aires satellite built by spacecraft-manufacturer Apex.
The company’s latest batch of 23 Starlink internet satellites lifted off at 6:56 p.m. ET on Monday (5:26 am Tuesday, IST) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
SpaceX has over 5,000 working Starlink satellites in orbit, and it has approval to launch up to 12,000, the company added.
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