By: Real America News Updated 21 Jan 2022, 22: 57 pm EST
A Falcon 9 rocket from the private firm SpaceX took off from Cape Canaveral, Florida (USA), with 49 Starlink satellites broadband internet on board after find favorable atmospheric conditions for the mission.
According to SpaceX, a company created by the entrepreneur and tycoon of South African origin Elon Musk, the mission will aim to place the Starlink satellites in a “low Earth orbit”.
This orbit, for its part, extends the specialized website spaceflightnow.com, and varies in altitude between 130 Y 210 miles (between 210 and 339 kilometers).
The mission, named Starlink 4-6, is the third launch in 2022 of the SpaceX Falcon 9.
The ship departed from platform 49A in the Center NASA Kennedy Space Station in Florida at 04 . US Eastern local time this Tuesday (.02 Wednesday GMT), to start a launch sequence of 15 minutes before deploying the 49 Starlink satellites in orbit.
A few minutes later, the Falcon 9 rocket booster returned to earth for later reuse.
The first stage recoverable booster, number B1060, made his tenth trip with this and landed back on an unmanned platform located in the Atlantic Ocean, north of the Bahamas.
SpaceX delayed the launch initially scheduled p will open this Monday night waiting for better conditions in the Atlantic landing zone of the booster rocket.
According to the statistics provided by the specialized website spaceflightnow.com, it is about the launch number 137 of a Falcon 9 rocket from 2010 and from the number 39 of the same propellant carrying satellites of the Starlink program.
The past 13 in January, SpaceX also took off from Cape Canaveral with more than a hundred small satellites on board, including six from the Spanish firm Fossa Systems and the Argentine miniature satellite “General San Martín”.
Today’s mission is part of the “Starlink” program that aims to put a large number of artificial satellites into orbit for the creation of an internet network broadband.
This mission is part of NASA’s public-private partnership with SpaceX, the rocket company founded in 2002 by Musk, who is also CEO of the electric car manufacturer Tesla.
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