SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket launched from the company’s launch site on Sunday, at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. that came days after the company's Dragon capsule became the first privately owned and operated spacecraft to be certified by NASA for human spaceflight.
The four astronauts on board this mission —NASA's Michael Hopkins, Victor Glover, and Shannon Walker and Soichi Noguchi with Japan's JAXA space agency joined NASA astronaut Kate Rubins and Russia's Sergey Ryzhikov and Sergey Kud-Sverchkov, who are already onboard the space station. They arrived aboard a Russian Soyuz spacecraft last month.
Later, SpaceX released on October, 60 more Starlink satellites into orbit, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to SpaceX, the Starlink satellites, which are each about the size of a table, deployed approximately one hour and three minutes after liftoff. The firm aims to have more than 1,000 satellites in orbit by the end of the year and has also been approved by the FCC to launch over 12,000 satellite .
Earlier, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying another 60 Starlink satellites into orbit in September, boosting the total number launched to date to 713 in a fast-growing constellation of internet relay stations.
The company’s fleet of flight-proven boosters has been busy this summer, with the California-based rocket builder reaching a new milestone on its previous Starlink flight: launching and landing the same first-stage booster six times.
According to cbsnews, generating 1.7 million pounds of thrust, the nine Merlin engines powering the previously flown first stage boosted the rocket out of the thick lower atmosphere.
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