Falcon 9 launches 143 spacecraft to orbit — the most ever deployed on a single mission
2021-01-25
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Falcon 9 launches 143 spacecraft to orbit — the most ever deployed on a single mission — completing SpaceX’s first dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission pic.twitter.com/CJSUvKWeb4
The fifth flight for first stage core 1058. It was pretty blackened. The Starlink flight just 2 days before was the 8th flight for core 1051. So some of the cores are approaching total refurbishment time. Plan for the F9s is total refurbishment every 10 flights. Initially planning is 100 flights per core.
Coming this week - Monday, Tuesday or Wednesday the launch to 12.5 km of StarShip. This coming as two oil platforms known as Phobos and Deimos have been identified as property of a SpaceX subsidiary. Deimos is in the port of Brownsville and Phobos was just caught moving into Pascagoula, Mississippi for conversion in support of Starship operations. These will be used for launching and landing of StarShip with it's heavy booster
Watch the StarShip Launch Pad on this cam on top of a hotel in South Padre with some nice telescopic lenses