SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on record-breaking 28th flight (video)

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Spacex broke its missile record again.

A Falcon 9 A missile topped by 28 from the company Starlink Online satellite was launched from NASA Kennedy Space Center In Florida Tuesday (May 13) at 1:02 am EST (0502 GMT).

This was the first stage of this first stage of this missile, and it broke the reuse of the same supporter It is located on April 13. At this twenty -seventh launch, the missile rotated 27 Starlink Craft – a little synchronization that does not seem by chance, given the number of loads on the 28th flight.

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The Falcon 9 Booster, appointed B1067, returned to Earth for its twenty -eighth landing after about eight minutes of takeoff on Tuesday, falling on Spacex The drone “Read the instructions”, which was concentrated in the Atlantic Ocean.

At the same time, the upper missile continued to carry the satellites of the Fund 28 Low Earth orbitIt is scheduled to be published 65 minutes after take off.

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The release of the record on Tuesday was the second Spacex mission in a few hours: The last of the Falcon 9 satellite Vandinburg satellite base In California on Monday evening (May 12).

Starlink is the largest constellation of satellite that has ever assembled-and it grows all the time, as shows the successive space movement. There is currently 7,400 Starlink Spacecraft, which revolves around the Earth, according to Astronomical physics and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.