SpaceX launches Starlink satellites in record-setting mission
Posted: Sat, Mar 26, 2022, 11:02 AM ET (1502 GMT)
SpaceX set reuse and payload mass records with its latest Starlink launch. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 12:42 am EDT (0442 GMT) March 19 and deployed 53 Starlink satellites about an hour later. The launch used a booster making its 12th flight, a company record. The launch also set a record for the mass of payload placed into orbit by the Falcon 9 at 16.25 metric tons. Meanwhile, two upcoming SpaceX launches of Crew Dragon spacecraft, the Ax-1 mission for Axiom Space and Crew-4 for NASA, have slipped by several days to provide additional time for spacecraft processing and reviews between the two missions.
SpaceX set reuse and payload mass records with its latest Starlink launch. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral at 12:42 am EDT (0442 GMT) March 19 and deployed 53 Starlink satellites about an hour later. The launch used a booster making its 12th flight, a company record. The launch also set a record for the mass of payload placed into orbit by the Falcon 9 at 16.25 metric tons. Meanwhile, two upcoming SpaceX launches of Crew Dragon spacecraft, the Ax-1 mission for Axiom Space and Crew-4 for NASA, have slipped by several days to provide additional time for spacecraft processing and reviews between the two missions.
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