NEW YORK, 28 May. / Corr. Kirill Volkov TASS /. The American company SpaceX successfully launched its rocket Falcon 9 with a Thai communications satellite Thaicom 8. Start took place at 17:39 local time (00:39 MSK) with the US Air Force base complex at Cape Canaveral (Florida).
The device belongs to the first Thai company-operator Thaicom. The satellite weighing about 3 tons, built by the American aerospace corporation Orbital ATK, is designed to transmit the telecommunications signal to the territory of South and Southeast Asia.
Produced mission launch was the fifth in a row Falcon 9 since the beginning of this year.
The third planting
SpaceX is the third time successfully carry out controlled launcher lower stage of the descent of the Falcon 9 on an offshore platform in the Atlantic Ocean.
“The first stage of the Falcon 9 landed on the platform”, – the report says the company
Before that SpaceX has twice been able to carry out controlled descent of the lower-stage support an offshore platform.. The last time it happened on May 6, when the company launched into orbit a communications satellite JCSAT-14 Japanese companies-operator SKY Perfect JSAT Group.
In April, after the launch of the Falcon 9 with space cargo ship Dragon exhaust element also successfully landed a giant floating platform in the Atlantic. Prior to this, all previous attempts to save the step fails. The SpaceX believe that the re-use of the first stage will allow the company to reduce the cost of business start-ups.
in orbit Exit
Communication satellite Thaicom 8 successfully launched into orbit. “Thaicom 8 launched into orbit superstatsionarnuyu nominal,” – said in a statement
Thaicom 8, designed for 15 years of continuous work, join a group of communication satellites Thai operator, numbering four at present apparatus.. Its development and start-up cost the company $ 180 million.
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