Washington. September 14. INTERFAX - The reusable first stage of the American Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which launched into orbit on Tuesday with 51 Internet satellites of the Starlink project, made a successful controlled landing on a floating platform in the Pacific Ocean, the developer company SpaceX said.
The vertical landing on the automatic marine platform Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean was carried out 8 minutes and 46 seconds after the launch of the rocket.
This first reusable stage of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle was used for launches for the tenth time.
The Falcon 9 heavy launch vehicle with satellites designed to continue the deployment of the global Internet coverage of the SpaceX Starlink system was launched on Monday at 20: 55 West Coast time (Tuesday at 06: 55 Moscow time) from the US Space Force base in Vandenberg (California).
This is the 31st launch of a group of Internet satellites into orbit since May 2019 as part of the Starlink project. Taking into account the current satellites, the SpaceX orbital grouping will already consist of 1,789 spacecraft.
