SpaceX Launched More Than 80 Satellites into Space as Part of the Transporter-17 Mission – Video

The American company SpaceX successfully launched 81 satellites into low Earth orbit as part of its latest commercial shared-ride mission, Transporter-17. The Falcon 9 launch vehicle lifted off on the morning of July 7 from a spaceport in California. 

The largest payload on this mission was the South Korean Earth remote sensing satellite CAS500-4. The satellite, weighing about 500 kg, is intended to monitor farmland, crops, and forests in South Korea.

Liftoff! pic.twitter.com/puG31v239X

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 7, 2020

Approximately 8.5 minutes after launch, the reusable first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket successfully performed a vertical landing on the company’s unmanned offshore platform in the Pacific Ocean. For SpaceX, this launch marked its 79th mission since the beginning of 2026, with nearly 80% of all launches this year dedicated to the deployment of the global Starlink internet satellite network.

This was reported by Space.com.

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