“One Arrow 540 Stars”! SpaceX's ten-handed Falcon 9 rocket works wonders

First of all, Falcon 9 rocket number B1058.10 for this launch mission, which is also its The tenth flight, and the recovery was successful again. It has also become the third “ten-handed rocket” of SpaceX after B1049 and B1051.

This time, the method of land recovery was adopted, and the recovery platform was only a few hundred meters away from the launch pad.

The first mission of this rocket was on May 30, 2020, It took only 19 months to complete 10 launches and recoveries , a new record.

second, Transporter3 is a “space carpool” mission, carrying a total of 105 small satellites from all over the world.

The largest of them is the Earth Imaging Satellite Ukraine Sich 2-1, weighing 170 kg, Finland ICEYE, US Capella/ Five SAR radar remote sensing satellites and 44 small “super pigeon” optical imaging satellites of three Umbra companies.

In January 2021, Transporter 1 launched 143 small satellites, and in June, Transporter 2 launched 88 small satellites, for a total of 336 pieces.

In this space batch vehicle mission, SpaceX’s fee is $5000 per kilo , which is quite cheap, and again shows the advantages of repeatable rockets.

Third, With this mission, the B1058 rocket has cumulatively launched about 540 satellites with a total weight of over 120 tons.

Previously it has launched about 290 Starlink satellites and a manned Dragon spacecraft for the International Space Station missions, two Dragon spacecraft resupply missions, and a commercial launch of a South Korean geostationary satellite.