Elon Musk-owned SpaceX has set a global record and India has become part of that historic achievement. In just 20 hours, SpaceX on Tuesday became the first space agency in the world to successfully launch three Falcon 9 rocket missions, completing its 112th, 113th, and 114th launches of the year. One of these rockets launched India’s most advanced heavyweight communication satellite Gsat-20 or Gsat-N2 weighing 4,700kg.
SpaceX went on a launching spree with its Falcon-9 rocket first sending an Australian communications company’s satellite TD7 into space from Florida spaceport. Then another Falcon-9 rocket launched 20 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. At the stroke of one minute past midnight in the intervening night of Monday and Tuesday, SpaceX’s third Falcon-9 launched India’s Gsat-20 satellite from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. After the 34-minute space journey, the rocket injected Gsat-20 into the geosynchronous transfer orbit (GTO). Read more
Source: Times of India