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SpaceX successfully launches its 232nd Mission

The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC 4E) at 6:16 a.m. local time, a day later than expected. SpaceX recently launched its latest batch of Starlink satellites, and three of the company’s rockets were poised for liftoff at three different launch sites.

After the recent launch, SpaceX will make another attempt at the International Space Station (ISS) tomorrow. A four-person crew will be launched on this mission for Axiom Space to an orbiting space laboratory.

In order to create their low Earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellations, the most recent mission delivered five satellites for Iridium and sixteen satellites for OneWeb. OneWeb’s constellation had sixteen operational satellites and one demonstration satellite.

This satellite, known as “Joeysat,” wants to test new technologies to examine how the spacecraft may modify its communications beam to take into consideration client demand, signal strength, and orientation.

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The European Space Agency (ESA) and the United Kingdom Space Agency have provided funding for the experimental spacecraft. OneWeb’s LEO network will increase to 634 satellites after the satellites launched this launch go into operation, and this mission was the company’s fourth SpaceX launch.

SpaceX’s network has additional redundancy thanks to the backup Iridium satellites.

After this launch, Iridium will have eighty satellites in orbit, adding to the network’s existing satellites’ longevity of more than two decades. For network redundancy, fourteen of these are backup spacecraft.

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At the Vandenberg facility, the launch took place within a typical thick fog. Soon after launch, it seemed as though viewers might get the chance to see the Falcon 9’s first and second stages separating in midair from the outside for the first time.

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This wasn’t the case, though, because stage separation allowed for internal views from both within and outside the first stage. As soon as the second stage achieved orbit, the first stage touched down. For this launch SpaceX again used a shorter nozzle on the Merlin 1D engine.

The mission itself lasted for quite some time because the second stage restarted its engine to deploy the Iridium satellites almost an hour after liftoff. It took five seconds for this fire to circularise the second stage’s orbit so that it matched the orbit required to launch the satellites. The first Iridium satellite was launched a few minutes later, and the others came online briefly after.

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Nivedita Bangari
Nivedita Bangari
I am a software engineer by profession and technology is my love, learning and playing with new technologies is my passion.
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