From the cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral started the Falcon 9 missile in the interests of NASA, reports Spacex.
It is noted that the IMaging X-Ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) spacecraft is installed in the head part of the carrier – a 325-kilogram new observatory equipped with three telescopes to track X-ray sources in the Universe.
After starting and separating from the second stage of Falcon 9, the first made a successful landing on the Float Platform Just Read The Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.
In December, Spacenews reported that in 2021, the American company Spacex broke the annual record of launches of own heavy missile Falcon 9. The publication notes that as of December 3, 27 starts of such media were produced. The previous record, which includes 26 Falcon 9 launches, was installed in 2020.
In December last year, Asstechnica reported that Spacex in 2020, despite the Pandemic COVID-19, broke his own record of 2018 in terms of rocket launches.