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This cookie is set by GDPR Cookie Consent plugin. These cookies ensure basic functionalities and security features of the website, anonymously. Necessary cookies are absolutely essential for the website to function properly. For comparison, in all of 2020, the company launched 26 Falcon 9 rockets. This was the 20th launch for SpaceX so far in 2021. The final deployment (three Starlink satellites) occurred 1 hour, 27 minutes after launch. The first payload deployed was NASA’s PACE-1 spacecraft at roughly 58 minutes into the flight. These include Astrocast, LEMUR, HawkEye Cluster 3, Lynk-06, SpaceBee, PAINANI-2, and TagSat-2. Approximately 25 payloads were on SHERPA. SHERPA-FX previously flew on the Transporter-1 and SSO-A missions. This serves to ensure that communication between payloads cannot interfere with communication to the satellite after launch, which was a problem with the SSO-A mission where other satellite providers could not communicate with their satellites after launch and deployment. Credit: Theresa Cross / Spaceflight Insiderįalcon 9 flew a third stage of sorts on the Transporter-2 mission, a satellite dispenser called SHERPA-FX, which was designed by Spaceflight for deploying secondary payloads. The first stage for the Transporter-2 mission, core B1060.8, touches down at Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. They were recovered about 375 miles (605 kilometers) downrange by the ship Hos Briarwood.
The payload fairings for this launch were also flight-proven. This was the first land landing at LZ-1, located some 5.6 miles (9 kilometers) south of the launch pad, since December 2020. When it did launch, the Transporter-2 mission sent 88 spacecraft into a roughly 97-degree-inclined orbit, including three Starlink satellites.Īccording to SpaceX, while this mission doesn’t have as many individual satellites aboard compared to the previous Transporter-1 rideshare flight, Transporter-2 launched “more mass to orbit” for its customers than the previous rideshare.įirst stage B1060.8, launching after a 61-day turnaround, performed a return to launch site landing, touching down on Landing Zone 1 approximately 8 minutes after liftoff. According to company CEO Elon Musk, an aircraft entered the “keep out zone.”Īdditionally, weather constraints during the second attempt caused SpaceX to delay liftoff 35 minutes into the mission’s 58-minute window. This was the second attempt to get the Transporter-2 mission off the ground after a “ fouled range” prompted a scrub for the June 29 attempt within just 30 seconds of the planned liftoff time. Credit: Theresa Cross / Spaceflight Insider
The Transporter-2 mission was the 20th launch for SpaceX in 2021.
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