The Falcon 9 launch vehicle will deliver a total of 105 spacecraft from 20 countries into orbit
NEW YORK, January 13. /tass/. SpaceX launched private and public spacecraft, including microsatellites, on Thursday as part of its commercial program. The broadcast is conducted on the company's website.
The Falcon 9 launch vehicle launched from the Cape Canaveral spaceport (Florida) at 10:25 am US East Coast time (18:25 GMT). Approximately an hour after the launch, the vehicles will be launched into near-Earth orbit.
SpaceX will deliver a total of 105 spacecraft from 20 countries into orbit. Among them is the Ukrainian satellite for remote sensing of the earth "Sich 2-30 (2-1)", whose service life is three years. The main manufacturer of the satellite is Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. As the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (Goskosmos) Vladimir Taftai pointed out, the contract amount for the launch of Sich 2-30 (2-1) by a SpaceX launch vehicle was $1.99 million.
Approximately nine minutes after launch, the first stage of the launch vehicle will be automatically planted on the pad located at the cosmodrome. Previously, this element of the Falcon 9 has been repeatedly used during launches.