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"We knew this incredible run had to come to an end at some point, but 344 flights in a row is amazing.""We knew this incredible run had to come to an end at some point, but 344 flights in a row is amazing."It was the first Falcon 9 failure since 2016, following a string of 344 successful consecutive launches.
And the 20 Starlink broadband internet satellites it was meant to carry into orbit have since met their fiery demise, as Harvard astrophysicist and space tracker extraordinaire Jonathan McDowell"The team made contact with 10 of the satellites and attempted to have them raise orbit using their ion thrusters, but they are in an enormously high-drag environment with their perigee, or lowest point of their elliptical orbit, only 135 km above the Earth," SpaceX wrote in a"We knew this...
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