SpaceX smashes its own record with 12th flight of its Falcon 9
SpaceX set a new record by reusing its Falcon 9 booster rocket in 12 flights, and is also celebrating its 20-year history
The company SpaceX is celebrating, because in addition to completing its first 20 years of experience, it managed to set a new record by reusing its Falcon 9 booster rocket in 12 flights, which means that Elon Musk’s organization has been able to fly in 12 missions , returning to earth without complications to be used again.
The most recent flight was carried out internally for its sister company Starlink, with the aim of placing 53 satellites in orbit to strengthen the company’s internal telecommunications network to add a total of 2,300 satellites floating in space that allow it to offer its Internet.
The launch was recently carried out from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, since that flight an important mark was broken because it is “the most times the same propellant has been reused of SpaceX Falcon rocket to date.
The 53 Starlink satellites were moved by the Falcon 9 and its booster returned to the ground virtually intact to be ready for its next mission, which would add its 13th mission. In its history, the device has several important distinctions, such as “the 2020 Crew Dragon Demo-2 mission with a new capsule with a crew inside.”
Celebrating two decades of success
The private space company SpaceX celebrated its first 20 years of history and during the celebration took stock of its triumphs, as well as some failures and are currently in a “critical period full of achievements, where the milestones seem to begin to accumulate one to one.”
The stories about the possibility of carrying out explorations with the Falcon 9 rocket remained in the past.
M. Rodríguez
Source: fayerwayer.com
