Billionaire Elon Musk’s American aerospace company SpaceX sent its 62nd mission into space, breaking the record for the most successful launch in a year. The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida on the evening of September 3. Early in the morning of September 4, SpaceX approved Launch of 21 satellites of the Starlink communication system into orbit on the official account on the X social network (formerly Twitter).
The first stage of Falcon 9 has already returned to Earth. The device landed on the SpaceX Just Read the Instruction floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean. According to the company, this was the 10th launch of the launch vehicle.
Shortly before the 62nd launch, SpaceX founder Elon Musk congratulated the startup team for their work this year, noting that the next successful launch would surpass the 2022 result and set a new record. Business man Wrote It’s about that in your account on X.
According to Elon Musk, SpaceX has brought about 80% of the total payload mass from Earth into orbit in 2023. The other 10% came from China, and the remaining 10% came from the rest of the world.
As part of the crew of the Crew-6 mission together with Russian cosmonaut Andrey Fedyaev, previously manned spacecraft Crew Dragon SpaceX return From the ISS to Earth.