SpaceX breaks record: Launch 143 satellites on a single rocket and send up human ashes

The company SpaceX launched this Sunday from Cape Canaveral (Florida ) a record of 143 satellites in a single rocket as part of its new load sharing program for multiple companies at a lower cost, including one of the Celestis funeral home, which sent small capsules of human ashes .

The so-called Transporter-1 mission began this Sunday the cost reduction program SmallSat Rideshare , whereby a small company satellite can travel into space with other spacecraft instead of buying a complete rocket at a much higher price.

The price to be shipped 440 pounds (200 kilograms) of charge to a synchronous orbit with the sun is 1 million dollars, about 2, 500 dollars per pound ra .

Following an unsuccessful attempt on Saturday due to bad weather conditions, SpaceX today successfully launched the Falcon 9 rocket with 133 assorted small satellites, including a container full of human remains Celestis cremated, and 10 more from the company’s Starlink Internet program.

The record was previously held by the launch four years ago of the India’s PSLV rocket with 104 satellite s.

The Transporter-1 mission arrives four days after the launch of other 60 satellites of SpaceX’s Starlink network, with which the company intends to provide high-speed internet to users anywhere in the world.

SpaceX’s purpose is to place about 1, 584 satellites into Earth orbit at about 549 kilometers above Earth, a much shorter distance than usual for these commercial devices.

This is the fifth flight of the Falcon 9 first-stage thruster, including the company’s first crewed launch, called Demo-2 , last May, which sent two NASA astronauts to the International Space Station (ISS) for a two-month stay.