A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket successfully launched a 9,000-pound satellite into orbit on Monday evening from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
The reusable rocket’s first stage landed back on the Just Read the Instructions droneship within the Atlantic Ocean roughly eight minutes after takeoff, marking SpaceX’s one hundred and seventieth recovery of an orbital class rocket.
The primary stage booster on the Falcon 9 rocket in Monday’s mission was previously utilized in three Stalink launches, SES-22, and ispace’s HAKUTO-R Mission 1.
Hispasat’s Amazonas Nexus satellite was deployed roughly 36 minutes after launch.
The Spanish company said that the satellite will cover the “entire American continent, Greenland and the North and South Atlantic corridors and shall be focused on connectivity services in distant areas and in air and maritime mobility environments.”
SpaceX contracts with private corporations like Hispasat to hold cargo into space, and in addition conducts missions for the U.S. Space Force and other government agencies.
The Falcon 9, which was used on Monday, is the corporate’s primary reusable rocket. The Falcon Heavy, which is basically three Falcon 9s strapped together, is deployed for heavier payloads.
