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Musk’s SpaceX launches 52 more satellites – The West Australian
SpaceX has the launched the third Falcon 9 rocket mission in the past two weeks, as well as its 15th mission so far this year.
Aeronautical company SpaceX has launched the Falcon 9 recyclable rocket into space from Florida, with a new batch of 52 satellites for its Starlink internet network.
In addition to the satellites to provide broadband internet, the rocket was attached to a Capella Synthetic Aperture radar satellite and another Tyvak-0130, SpaceX said via Twitter.
According to the US National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the latter is “an optical spectrum astronomical observation nanosatellite”.
The launch…
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