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SpaceX's fourth satellite carpool was successful, sending 40 more spacecraft into the sky

IT House April 2 news, April 1 at 12:24 PM EASTERN TIME, Falcon 9 B1061-7 stage rocket lifted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force launch site 40 launch pad in Florida, one arrow 40 stars to the sun-synchronous orbit.

Ninety minutes after launch, the American broom once again successfully landed on the Unmanned Ship Reader in the Atlantic Ocean and completed its recovery. This also represents the success of SpaceX's fourth satellite carpooling mission, Transporter-4, with 40 satellites, including CubeSat, microsatellites, and leather satellites from various institutions.

It is worth mentioning that if it were not for the size of the German space agency EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Program) satellite (1000 kg at launch), it would have been able to carry more satellites.

IT House understands that this is the 34th space launch mission in the world in 2022, the 19th in the United States, and the 12th on the Falcon 9 rocket. This mission is also the 7th recovery of the Falcon 9 first stage rocket B1061, the following video is from SpaceX.

SpaceX's fourth satellite carpool was successful, sending 40 more spacecraft into the sky

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The launch was a wide variety of aircraft, and SpaceX wrote in its description of today's mission, which is called Transporter-4. If all goes according to plan, all deployed spacecraft are free to fly within 90 minutes of launch.

SpaceX's fourth satellite carpool was successful, sending 40 more spacecraft into the sky

The Falcon 9 first stage rocket used in this mission launched crew-1 and Crew-2 manned space missions, SiriusXM communications satellite (June 2021), and delivery of CRS-23 to the International Space Station (August 2021) to the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2020 and April 2021. According to the Transporter 4 mission description, it should also have a batch of SpaceX Starlink Starlink Internet satellites to be launched.

SpaceX's fourth satellite carpool was successful, sending 40 more spacecraft into the sky

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