- June 8, 2022
- Posted by: AliensFaith
- Category: OBJECTIVE PRESS
SpaceX has successfully completed its 23rd rocket launch and landing of 2022, delivering an Egyptian communications satellite to a nominal geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
Despite a report of a possible technical “issue” just a few minutes before liftoff, SpaceX’s launch team was able to either rapidly rectify the problem or determine it was within an acceptable range of performance, and Falcon 9 ultimately lifted off without issue at 5:04 pm EDT (21:04 UTC), Wednesday, June 8th. Flying for the seventh time overall and sixth time in less than a year, Falcon 9 booster B1062 carried the rocket’s ~100-ton (~220,000 lb) upper stage, payload fairing, and 4-ton (~9,000 lb) Nilesat 301 payload most of the way out of Earth’s atmosphere, where they parted ways about 2.5 minutes after liftoff.
While B1062 began its trip back to Earth, Falcon 9’s upper stage ignited, deployed its fairing, and carried Nilesat 301 into an initial parking orbit, where it coasted for twenty minutes before boosting into an elliptical geostationary transfer orbit (GTO) and releasing the satellite.