ANKARA
U.S. aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company SpaceX successfully launched 143 small satellites into space Sunday, a new record for a single rocket.
The Transporter-1 mission, delayed Saturday due to bad weather, was successfully launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the U.S. state of Florida, SpaceX said in a statement.
133 commercial satellites and 10 of the company’s own Starlink internet satellites will be put into orbit as part of the mission.
“SpaceX’s 10 StarX satellites are intended to provide better coverage to those in the pole regions,” he said.
SpaceX plans to establish a network of 12,000 satellites in Earth orbit with Starlink satellites which it aims to complete in 2027.
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