BIG PICTURE
SpaceX Smashes
Launch Record
Cape Canaveral Space
Force Station, Florida
SpaceX’s Transporter-1 mission,
which launched on 24 Jan,
comfortably beat the previous
record of 108 satellites launched
by Northrop Grumman in 2018.
With a total of 143 satellites and
other payloads on board, SpaceX
also more than doubled its own
record of 64. The launch was
part of the company’s SmallSat
Rideshare Program, which boasts
launch costs as low as $1mn to
launch 200kg to orbit, opening
up the frontier of space to much
smaller businesses.Photo by Airman First Class Thomas Sjoberg, U.S. Space Force
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