There's no record too ambitious to break.
The Globalstar satellite launch was SpaceX's third mission in a little more than 36 hours. On June 17, the private space firm launched 53 Starlink internet satellites from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida and, on June 18, it launched a radar satellite for the German military from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
It's also worth pointing out that the Friday Starlink mission set a reusability record for SpaceX. The Falcon 9 first stage that flew the latest batch of the internet satellites into orbit launched and landed back on Earth for the 13th time.employee dissent at SpaceX will know that this busy period — culminating in the possible launch of Starship this summer — was a focal point for company president
Gwynne Shotwell when she said a recent open letter criticizing CEO Elon Musk's behavior was a distraction from the"critical work" underway at SpaceX. "We have 3 launches within 37 hours for critical satellites this weekend," she wrote in a company-wide email, shared, referring to the open letter penned by SpaceX employees."We have to support the astronauts we delivered to the ISS and get cargo Dragon back to the flight-ready, and after receiving environmental approval early this week, we are on the cusp of the first orbital launch attempt of Starship.
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