Today at 10:28 am Kiev time, space company SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket, whose first reusable stage will go on its sixth flight. The launch site is the SLC-40 site at Cape Canaveral.
The traditional batch of 60 Internet satellites of the Starlink project – already the 22nd – will be launched into orbit.
The spent stage B1060 (its height is over 40 m) approximately 8.5 minutes after the start should, according to the plan, gently descend onto the platform barge Of Course I Still Love You in the Atlantic Ocean 615 km from the launch site. It will be shown live.
The SpaceX naval ship (see photo above) will fish reusable fairing flaps 667 km from the launch site. Apparently, the company gave up trying to catch them in surface nets.
The second stage is expected to enter the atmosphere, burn up and be flooded south of Australia, in approximately this zone:
Orbit parameters, where the satellites will be disconnected from the upper stage: ~ 284 x 258 km.
See photo: Impressive dimensions: SpaceX rocket spent stage
The height of the Falcon 9 rocket is about 70 m, the diameter of the steps is 3.66 m, the nose cone is 5.3 m; weight without fuel ~ 29 t, with full filling up to 549 t. The first stage is equipped with nine Merlin 1D engines, the second – with one Merlin 1D Vacuum. More details here.
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