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SpaceX launched its 21st wave Starlink satellite on Sunday morning.
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This is the ninth flight of the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage.
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This booster can fly the 10th mission in a month or two.
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SpaceX launched another wave of Starlink satellites on Sunday morning, bringing it close to a major breakthrough for rocket reuse. The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket to lift this payload into orbit, Booster no. 1051, it made its ninth flight. Successfully landed on Of course I still love you Buzz.
Since this is the first Falcon 9 rocket to launch nine missions, it raises the prospects for Phase One to make its tenth flight in the near future, perhaps in a month or two. Achieving ten flights would fulfill one of SpaceX’s main goals with the Falcon 9 rocket, having repaired the car for reuse nearly three years ago.
Company It debuted in the ‘Block 5’ version. From the Falcon 9 rocket in May 2018, this vehicle has carried out 55 missions, all of which successfully sent their payloads into orbit. More importantly, the changes SpaceX engineers made to this new missile to ensure its resistance to reuse, such as increasing the OctaWeb engine space, have been largely verified.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk said, “For those who know rockets, it’s been really tough.” During a conference call With reporters in 2018 discussing upgrading Block 5. “We’ve needed time since then, friends, since 2002. Sixteen years of hard work and lots of iteration and thousands of small but important developmental changes to get to where we think it’s possible.” He paused for a moment, then added, “This is very difficult.”
By that time, Musk had set two main goals for the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket.He wanted to drive each vehicle 10 times before it needed a lot of maintenance. He hopes to reach a point where Falcon 9 missiles can turn around and fly back within 24 hours.
SpaceX appears to have made good progress towards the first goal. While the company hasn’t revealed how much maintenance was carried out for the first phase of the Falcon 9 between launches, or how often the Merlin engine was replaced, the bottom line has proven to be reliable and robust. Many of the early stage 9 Falcons had flown more than five times.
The company remains the 24 hour vehicle for transformation. Although it has reduced initial inspections and renewal times between flights from around six months to the current record of 27 days, it is unlikely that SpaceX will hit its 24-hour shift target with the Falcon 9.In all likelihood, the company will take over what it learns from flying and reuse. Falcon 9, and he brings the ambition of extremely fast reuse to the Starship vehicle SpaceX is currently developing in south Texas.
This ability to rapidly reuse the Falcon 9 rocket has allowed SpaceX to achieve high launch speeds in recent months with fleet Less than 10 active boosters. So far in 2021, the company releases an average launch every nine days, which is the cool rhythm of a large orbital missile. Another Falcon 9 launch might come as soon as this weekend.
SpaceX’s need to put thousands of Starlink satellites into orbit – Sunday’s flight was the launch of the 21st Starlink satellite – led the company’s statement. Six of the eight company launches so far in 2021 have carried 60 Starlink satellites each.
Astronomers have raised concerns about the impact of these satellites on the night sky, and satellite experts are concerned about collisions between many vehicles in low Earth orbit. There is no doubt, however, that the technique required to bring many satellites into orbit at this speed is astonishing. musk Recorded on Twitter This weekend, SpaceX is sending double the payload into orbit in 2020 compared to the rest of the world combined, and could orbit the world three or even four times by 2021.
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