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SpaceX launches Globalstar’s FM15 satellite into space

The US-based aerospace manufacturer SpaceX successfully sent the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the FM15 satellite of the US satellite communications company Globalstar into orbit. Today at 01:27 pm local time, it’s announced that the launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Base in Florida, US, was carried out to place the 700 kilogram Globalstar satellite into low Earth orbit. It’s recorded that 10 minutes after takeoff, the rocket successfully made a vertical landing on SpaceX’s unmanned platform “Just Read The Instructions”, which was deployed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast. With the last launch, SpaceX successfully completed 3 space missions in 36 hours. The company launched Starlink internet satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida last Friday, and yesterday a radar satellite was sent into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base for the German army.

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