SpaceX on Tuesday launched its Falcon 9 rocket for a record-breaking sixth flight before the car successfully landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
The success paves the way for a possible seventh use of the rocket booster, and ends with the company’s goal of landing its boosters and recovering every half of the nosecone for partial reuse.
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from SpaceX’s launch site at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida on Tuesday, launching 58 Starlink satellites and three Planet SkySat satellites into space, The Verge reported.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with South Korea’s ANASIS-II military communications satellite, launched from Route 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station.
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SpaceX has so far launched nearly 600 satellites for its Starlink initiative – aimed at making broadband coverage out of orbit.
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Tuesday’s mission marked the 95th successful launch of SpaceX since its inception nearly 20 years ago. During that time, the company has landed rocket boosters 58 times and reused them for at least 40 missions.
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The company has said that a Falcon 9 rocket will cost about $ 62 million per launch, but reusing it could reduce that price by more than half, CNBC reported.
