Booster Falcon 9 successfully put into orbit a commercial satellite

Today (literally an hour ago) SpaceX launched another successful launch of its Falcon 9 launch vehicle. The flight was commercial, its goal was to launch the AsiaSat8 communications satellite into orbit.

For the Falcon 9 launch vehicle, this is a one-way flight: the satellite is heavy, it needed all the fuel to launch, and there are no resources to softly touch / return the first stage of the launch vehicle, everything was used up during launch.


A schematic representation of the AsiaSat satellite itself

Launch, by the way, was broadcast live, here is a 12-minute recording made during the broadcast:



Now work is underway to install the satellite in the desired orbit, the status of the mission can be monitored here .

As far as one can tell, SpaceX successfully continues to work in the commercial space industry, so it remains to wish the company and Elon Mask to continue in the same vein :)

PS By the way, the other day the management of SpaceX officially confirmed the placement of the company's new cosmodrome in Texas. About it already wrote on Habré , and now all this information was confirmed.