SpaceX Completes 232nd Mission Without A Hitch
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SpaceX launched its latest mission of the Falcon 9 this year from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California earlier today. The launch was Falcon 9's 33rd mission in 2023, and it came after the mission was called off yesterday as the Falcon 9 aborted moments before liftoff. SpaceX has started to reuse its rockets heavily, regularly pushing them beyond ten missions per first stage. As if this weren't enough, the firm also has plans to stretch the boundaries of reusability even further with its Starlink missions. The mission launched 21 satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), with SpaceX using one rocket to launch two missions for rival firms OneWeb and Iridium. The successful launch also marked SpaceX's 232nd overall mission.
The Falcon 9 took off from the Vandenberg base's Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC 4E) at 6:16 am local time, roughly a day after it was initially scheduled to launch. SpaceX had already launched its fresh batch of Starlink satellites yesterday, and before the launch, three of the firm's rockets were in liftoff configuration at three different launch pads. After today's launch, SpaceX will return tomorrow as it launches another private mission to the International Space Station (ISS). This mission is for Axiom Space and will launch a crew of four to the orbiting space laboratory.
The latest mission carried five satellites for Iridium and sixteen satellites for OneWeb to build their low Earth orbit (LEO- satellite constellations. For OneWeb, fifteen satellites were operational spacecraft, and one was a demonstration satellite. Dubbed 'Joeysat,' this satellite aims to
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