The Falcon 9 B1060 rocket completed its eighth flight during the mission this Wednesday (30) Transporter-2. The B1060 marks a visit every one and a half months, marking SpaceX’s progress in developing a reusable first-stage rocket.
The pace of shipments of this particular Falcon 9 model is increasing – there are five flights since January 2021. This number is even more impressive than that. orbiters On NASA, which usually do one or two missions a year, as they require a lot of repairs between releases.
This transport was first used in June 2020 by the US Space Force during a mission to set up satellites GPS III.
Breaking the sound barrier during the start of the Transporter-2 missionSource: Breeding/Trevor Mahlmann
The Falcon 9 rocket line has completed 20 missions this year. Portal photographers and journalists aRS TechnicaTrevor Mahleman recorded images of the launch and landing of the Transporter-2 mission, which sent several commercial and government satellites into space. We can see how time and wear have changed the look of the Brave B1060.
B1060. landing ofSource: Breeding/Trevor Mahlmannhl
B1060 before its first launch in 2020 compared to the current state of the rocketSource: Breeding/Trevor Mahlmann
Transporter-2 delayed
The Falcon 9’s voyage was supposed to take place this Tuesday (29), but was canceled during the countdown. An aircraft entered an exclusion zone defined by the US Federal Aviation Administration, disrupting the launch. Following the incident, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk published a tweet criticizing the US agency’s rules.
Unfortunately, the launch has been called off for today, as one aircraft entered the “keep out zone”, which is unreasonably huge.
There is no way that humanity can become a space-oriented civilization without major regulatory reform. The current regulatory system is broken.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) June 29, 2021
“There is no way for humanity to become a space civilization without regulatory reform,” the businessman complained. “The current regulatory system is broken,” he concluded.
You can watch the full broadcast of the mission in the video below.
