It’s been a busy weekend for SpaceX.
The company sent yet another rocket racing off into orbit on Sunday morning after a planned Saturday launch was called off due to inclement weather. The rocket, dubbed Transporter-1, is loaded with some very special cargo: A gigantic pile of satellites.
There are 143 in total aboard Transporter-1. Of those, 133 belong to government and business interests. The other 10 are Starlink satellites, the orbital high-speed internet project spearheaded by SpaceX.
Notably, Transporter-1’s cargo makes this particular launch more historic than most. The 143 satellites it’s ferrying up into the space are “the most spacecraft ever deployed on a single mission,” according to SpaceX. Read more…
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