SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on its 14th mission on Saturday, sending two commercial communications satellites into orbit, SpaceX’s third in four days.
The Falcon 9, which was overtaken by the Intelsat satellite, has taken off Galaxy 33 a Galaxy 34From Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida yesterday at 19:05 ET 01:05 Egypt time, according to the site outer space.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket returned to Earth and landed aboard a SpaceX drone lack of gravity About 8.5 minutes after launch, the robotic ship was in the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of kilometers off the coast of Florida.
According to the mission description, this was the 14th launch and landing of this reinforcement SpaceXThe missile previously helped launch satellites GPS III-3 a 5 A . gearboxesAnd the message Carrier – 2 car sharing And 10 large groups of Internet satellites starlink Subsidiary SpaceX.
Yesterday’s SpaceX launch was the third in four days, the company launched an astronaut mission Crew 5 NASA on Wednesday plus a group of 52 satellites from starlink.
The company’s founder, Elon Musk, said the Saturday flight was originally scheduled to take off on Thursday night, October 6, but the Falcon 9 began spontaneously aborting shortly before the scheduled launch. SpaceX And its CEO announced Thursday via Twitter that the cause of the miscarriage was a small leak of helium, then pushed SpaceX The launch is scheduled for Saturday due to additional vehicle checks.