Elon Musk's SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle with the Ukrainian satellite Sich-2-30
The SpaceX company of entrepreneur and billionaire Elon Musk on Thursday, January 13, launched a Falcon 9 launch vehicle from Cape Canaveral (Florida) with 105 satellites from 20 countries, including the Ukrainian Sich-2-30. The broadcast was carried out on the company's Twitter account.
The service life of the Ukrainian satellite is three years, TASS clarifies. The main manufacturer of the satellite is Yuzhnoye Design Bureau. As the head of the State Space Agency of Ukraine (Goskosmos) Vladimir Taftai noted, the contract amount for the launch of Sich 2-30 by a SpaceX launch vehicle was $ 1.99 million.
On January 7, SpaceX launched the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, which will deliver 49 Starlink microsatellites into Earth orbit.
In December, SpaceNews noticed that the company, founded by American entrepreneur Elon Musk, surpasses all countries except China in the number of launches.
