Elon Musk-Led SpaceX Executes 36th Launch Of 2022; Falcon 9 Blasts Off With 46 Starlink Satellites – Benzinga

Elon Musks SpaceX has been brisk with its rocket launches this year, and on Friday, it successfully completed another launch exercise.

What Happened: SpaceX announced that on Friday, its Falcon 9 launched 46 Starlink satellites to low-earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California.

Starlink is a SpaceX-owned high-speed, low latency satellite internet service.

SpaceX noted that Fridays launch was the 10th flight for this Falcon 9 first-stage booster. Falcon 9 is the companys reusable two-stage rocket for transporting people and payloads into Earths orbit, the Moon, and Mars. This was the 56th Starlink commission and SpaceXs 36th launch of 2022.

Earlier, Tesla, Inc. TSLA CEO Elon Musk shared a video of Falcon 9 being prepared for the flight, and captioned it as adding the 13 inner engines.

Why Its Important: SpaceX has already overtaken last years 31 orbital launches by late July.Musk complimented the team for achieving the feat. Estonia became the latest country where Starlink's service became available.

Starlink recently won a contract from the U.S. Air Force for providing fixed-site and portable services, with the Air Force citing in the documents that it believes the Musk-led service is the only Low-Earth Orbit satellite network providing services to Europe and Africa.

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Elon Musk-Led SpaceX Executes 36th Launch Of 2022; Falcon 9 Blasts Off With 46 Starlink Satellites - Benzinga