Spacex Bounces Back From Falcon 9 Failure With Successful Starlink Launch
Date
7/28/2024 3:10:35 PM
(MENAFN- AzerNews)
SpaceX launched 23 of its Starlink broadband satellites from
NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket on
Saturday (July 27) at 1:45 a.m. EDT (0545 GMT), according to the
company .
It was SpaceX's first liftoff since July 11, when a Falcon 9
suffered an upper-stage failure that led to the loss of 20 Starlink
spacecraft.
The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth on Saturday about
eight minutes after launch as planned. It made a vertical touchdown
on SpaceX's Just Read the Instructions drone ship, which was
stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the 17th launch and landing for this particular booster,
according to a SpaceX mission description. Thirteen of its flights
have been Starlink missions.
The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 23
Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO). It deployed them
right on schedule, about 63 minutes after launch, SpaceX confirmed
via X.
The July 11 failure resulted from a leak of liquid oxygen, which
prevented the Falcon 9's upper stage from performing an
orbit-raising burn as planned. SpaceX's anomaly investigation found
the likely cause of that leak - a crack in a line for a pressure
sensor in the liquid-oxygen system.
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