The American company Spacex launched the Falcon 9 carrier rocket, which will be delivered to Starlink microsatellites in the near-earth orbit. Broadcast is conducted on the company’s website.
Start from a cosmodrome at Cape Canaveral, Florida, took place at 16:49 in the time of the east coast of the United States (00:49 January 7 Moscow time).
The first stage of the rocket before it was already used at three launches. It is planned that after separation, the stage automatically drops on a floating platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
In December, the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket company Spacex after the start in December with the Dragon Cosmic Space Space to the International Space Station (ISS) made a hundredth landing.
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