Spacex presented its first Falcon Nine rocket in 2025 tonight, in what will be another year busy for the company.
A SpaceX Falcon nine rocket lifted off on Friday, January 3 at 8:27 p. m. EST (0127 GMT) from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, launching the Thuraya Four spacecraft into geosynchronous orbit.
Thuraya Four is operated through SpaceFour2, a satellite and corporate area service founded in the United Arab Emirates. The satellite will provide cellular communication in Europe, the Middle East and Africa to government customers and clients.
Eight minutes and 40 seconds after taking off, the Falcon Nine Booster returned to Earth for a touchdown aboard the SpaceX drones “unlike the gravies” off the coast of the Atlantic Ocean.
It is the twentieth flight and recovery of this reinforcement of the first Falcon Nine stage, and the 341th Spacex recovery of an orbital class rocket, adding the heavy thrusters of Falcon Nine and Falcon.
Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship pic.twitter.com/DeNJcdfH6tJanuary 4, 2025
The first withdrawal land presented by the project has already introduced the unfortunate lunar landing ispace haukto-r, a project to replenish the ISS and thirteen masses of Spacex Starlink satellites.
Approximately 35 minutes and 30 minutes of flight, the Thuraya 4 satellite separated from the second point of the rocket and deployed in an orbit of geostationary movement, where it will later begin to enter a geosynchronous orbit on a constant location on the earth.
The Thuraya 4 mission marks SpaceX’s 418th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket, and the company’s 435th mission overall. SpaceX launched more than 130 orbital missions in 2024, and this year’s total is expected to be even higher.
The satellite on today’s flight is known more formally as the Thuraya 4-NGS (Next Generation System) and was built by Airbus. The technologies aboard the satellite will “unlock innovative AI-powered services,” Ali Al Hashemi, CEO of Yahsat Space Services, one of the two companies that form Space42, said in a statement.
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