It was another seemingly routine mission for SpaceX, which has now launched over 3,000 small satellites into space as the company builds out its Starlink constellation. But this time, the payload belonged to OneWeb, something of a Starlink competitor.
A Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from Kennedy Space Center just before 5:30 p.m., lighting up the twilight and leaving a brilliant white exhaust plume in its wake. Minutes later, the crack of a triple sonic boom shook the coast as the booster stage returned for a landing.Here's what it looked and sounded like as a Falcon 9 first stage returned to Earth, from 2.5 miles away.
OneWeb’s efforts had been slowed by financial issues as well as by Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. The company had been using Russian Soyuz rockets to launch its satellites; the invasion and subsequent sanctions forced them to seek alternatives, including – for the first time – SpaceX., meanwhile, is planning its own network of internet-beaming satellites, known as Project Kuiper.
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