SpaceX’s fourth satellite carpool successful, sending forty more spacecraft: Report

According to the latest report, a Falcon 9 B1061-7 first stage rocket was lifted from launch pad 40 at the Space Force Launch Site in Cape Canaveral, Florida. 90 minutes after the launch, the “American Broom” successfully landed again on the unmanned ship “Reading Instructions” in the Atlantic Ocean and completed its recovery. 

This also represents the success of 40 satellites of SpaceX’s fourth satellite carpooling mission Transporter-4, including CubeSats, microsatellites, and pico-satellites from various agencies.

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It is worth mentioning that the carpool should have carried more satellites if it had not been due to the size of the German space agency EnMAP (Environmental Mapping and Analysis Project) satellites (weighing 1000 kg at launch).

Moreover, this is the 34th space launch mission in the world in 2022, the 19th in the United States, and the 12th for the Falcon 9 rocket. This mission is also the seventh recovery of the Falcon 9 first stage rocket B1061.

The launch vehicles are of a wide variety, SpaceX wrote in a description of today’s mission, which is called Transporter-4. If all goes according to plan, all deployed spacecraft will be free to fly within 90 minutes of launch.

Moreover, the Falcon 9 first stage rocket used in this mission has launched Crew-1 and Crew-2 manned space missions, SiriusXM communications satellites (2021) to the International Space Station (ISS) in November 2020 and April 2021, to the International Space Station to deliver CRS-23 (August 2021).

According to the Transporter 4 mission description, it should also have a batch of SpaceX Starlink Internet satellites to be launched.

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