Including one long-awaited and colossal German satellite. 🚀
"Payloads for our upcoming fourth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission — Transporter-4 — were encapsulated into Falcon 9's fairing late last week," read a pre-launch tweet from SpaceX."On this flight are 40 spacecraft, including cubesats, microsats, picosats, hosted payloads and an orbital transfer vehicle."like Exolaunch, D-Orbit, and Spaceflight — each of which in turn works with SpaceX on behalf of satellite manufacturers.
After its launch, the first stage of SpaceX'son one of the firm's drone ships precisely 10 minutes and 33 seconds after launch. As of writing, stage 2 of the rocket was in low-Earth orbit, achieving the optimal trajectory to release its payload, heading North several thousand miles west of Indonesia, approaching the Indian Sea.
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