Three launches – and as many landings – in the space of nearly 36 hours. This is what SpaceX has just successfully achieved between June 17 and June 19. Already at the start of the year, Elon Musk’s group had carried out three very close missions between January 31 and February 3.
On Friday, June 17, from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, a Falcon 9 rocket launched 53 Starlink satellites into orbit. This mission marked the 100th reuse of a booster, the 50th consecutive landing and the first booster flew a 13th time.
On Sunday June 19, it was on behalf of the American company Globalstar specialized in satellite telephony that a Falcon 9 rocket took off from the space launch complex 40 (SLC-40) from Cape Canaveral in Florida to place on orbits a Globalstar FM15 satellite.
Two launches in Florida and one in California
Meanwhile on Saturday, June 18, a Falcon 9 rocket liftoff took place from Space Launch Complex 4 (SLC-4) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The SARah-1 mission (SAR for synthetic aperture radar) placed a radar remote sensing satellite built by Airbus for the German army (military intelligence) into orbit.
For the Friday and Sunday missions, Falcon 9’s first stage landing took place on an automated barge at sea. For the Saturday mission, it returned to the ground.
NB: Image source: SpaceX.
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