SpaceX brought to orbit a double -purpose telecommunications satellite (video)

On the night of December 17, the American space company SpaceX carried out another successful launch of the Falcon 9 launch vehicle and brought the JCSAT-18/Kacific1 telecommunication satellite into orbit. The direct broadcast of the mission was carried out on the SpaceX website .

The carrier rocket with the satellite was launched from the starting complex of the SLC-40 of the US Air Force, located at Cape Kanveral, at 3 hours 10 minutes Moscow time. The department of the first stage, which was previously used in May and July of this year during the launches of Dragon cargo ships to the ISS, passed regularly, and after eight with a small minutes the acceleration block of the board on the landing platform in the Atlantic Ocean. SpaceX also attempted to catch on the nets installed on special ships, both halves of the nasal fairing of the rocket, but failed. Parts of the fairing fell into the ocean, but the company did not exclude that they could still use them again.

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- SpaceX (@spacex) December 17, 2019

The dual-use of the JCSAT-18/KACICIC1 dual-use, which was brought to the ge-transition orbit, was created by the Boeing company for the Japanese Sky Perfect Jsat Corporation and Singapore Satellite Satellite Satellite Internet Provider, for which this satellite was the first. The apparatus will provide communication and access to customers for Sky Perfect JSAT in the Asia-Pacific region, including the Russian Far East. For Kacific customers from Southeast Asia, the satellite must provide inexpensive and high-speed Internet access, which will allow residents of remote areas to access medical, educational, state and other services.

This launch became the penultimate for SpaceX in 2019 - on December 31, the company plans to launch a third batch of satellites of its own global STARLINK Internet system in orbit. In total, this year SpaceX carried out 11 launches of the Falcon 9 missile and two launches of Falcon Heavy missiles.