SpaceX launches smallsat rideshare mission to space
STORY: SpaceX launches smallsat rideshare mission to space
DATELINE: April 2, 2022
LENGTH: 00:01:43
LOCATION: Washington D.C.
CATEGORY: SCIENCE
SHOTLIST:
1. various of the launch and the landing
STORYLINE:
U.S. private space company SpaceX launched its fourth smallsat rideshare mission on Friday, deploying 40 spacecraft to space.
The mission, dubbed Transporter-4, was launched on a Falcon 9 rocket at 12:24 p.m. Eastern Time from the Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Following stage separation, SpaceX landed Falcon 9's first stage on the Just Read the Instructions droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
SpaceX later confirmed the rideshare deployment sequence was complete.
Transporter-4 is SpaceX's fourth smallsat rideshare mission. On this flight are 40 spacecraft, including CubeSats, microsats, picosats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and an orbital transfer vehicle carrying spacecraft to be deployed at a later time, according to SpaceX.
- Product Code
- ILEA000949399
- Registered date
- 2022/4/02 00:00:00
- Credit
- Xinhua / Kyodo News Images
- Media source
- Xinhua News Agency.All Rights Reserved
- Media size
- 1920 × 1080 pixel
- Deployment size
- 104.43(MB)*
*File size when opened in Photoshop, etc.