SpaceX Team Celebrates Its Success and records
The U.S.-based rocket and spacecraft manufacturing firm popularly known as SpaceX just celebrated a successful 100 times trip to space with the popular rockets made by the firm. The last launch by the Falcon 9 hits the number of flights to 100.
According to information made known on its official website, SpaceX’s rocket known as Falcon9 made a successful launch of 60 Starlink satellites to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida. The launch occurred at 11:31 am EDT, 11:31 UTC, on Saturday, October 24th, 2020. Thus, making SpaceX successful flight to Space 100.
This success record was backed with a well-documented video on the SpaceX official Twitter handle revealing short video clips of all the launching and space flight undertaken by SpaceX’s rockets counting from its first flight to the 100th flight. A good sign of professionalism and appreciation from the professional spaceship manufacturing team.
On the recent flight by falcon 9, the documentary stated that Falcon’s 9 first stage previously supported the GPS III Space Vehicle 03 mission in June 2020 and a Starlink mission in September 2020.
During the stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon 9’s stage on the “just read the instructions” drone ship positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. It was accurately launched such that the Falcon 9 was able to deploy Starlink satellites approximately one hour and 3minutes after it took off from the earth.
Starting from the onset when Falcon 1 rocket made a successful flight to orbit in 2008, SpaceX had built series of Falcon rockets and the last launching of a Starlink satellite to orbit by Falcon 9 completes the flight circle of the falcon series into orbit to 100.
A success the team believes calls for a celebration. In a statement posted on its website, it reads: “The difficulty of precision landing an orbital rocket after it reenters Earth’s atmosphere at hypersonic velocity is not to be overlooked — SpaceX remains the only launch provider in the world capable of accomplishing this task.”
The record so far has not only to boost the confidence of the firm, but it has also placed them ahead of any other spaceship and rockets manufacturer in the world. Besides the success, the SpaceX team is anticipating having a system that will enable rockets to be reusable after the first trip.
The team is projecting a future that people can travel to space and other planets at a lower cost and that will only be possible through the making of spaceships that can be reusable just as we have in our commercial planes.
In a statement, the team says” SpaceX believes that fully and rapidly reusable rockets are the pivotal breakthrough needed to dramatically reduce the cost of access to space to enable people to travel to and live on other planets. While most rockets are expendable after launch — akin to throwing away an airplane after a one-way trip from Los Angeles to New York — SpaceX is working toward a future in which reusable rockets are the norm.”
According to the team, Falcon 9 is currently the most-flown operational rocket in the U.S. thereby making it more useful than the expendable rockets that had been launching for decades.
Based on the 100 times successful launching of Falcon rockets, SpaceX has landed a Falcon first-stage rocket booster 63 times and re-flown boosters 45 times and this year the firm accomplished twice of the sixth flight of an orbital rocket booster.
100 successful flights pic.twitter.com/AR647cK6Ss
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 24, 2020
