January four (UPI) – Spacex has introduced its first 2025 flight, sending a Falcon Nine rocket with a Thuraya Four satellite of the launch complex of Cape Canaveral Four0 in Florida.
Eight minutes and 40 seconds later, the booster returned to Earth for a touchdown aboard the SpaceX drone “a gravity deficit” of the Atlantic Ocean.
Falcon Nine launches @SpaceFour2ai’s Thuraya Four to Orbit, completing our first project of the year!Pic. twitter. com/ekvqr6605m— SpaceX (@spacex) January 4, 2025
It was flight 20 and the recovery of this first reinforcement of Falcon Nine Stage Nine, and the 341 ° Spacex Recovery a rocket of orbital elegance, adding Falcon Nine and Falcon Heavy Boosters.
After 35 minutes and 30 moments after the start of the flight, the Thuraya Four satellite separated from the rocket’s momentum level. It has been deployed in geostationary motion orbit and will be in a geosynchronous orbit above a constant position on Earth.
Space42 recently operates two geostationary satellites: Thuraya 1 introduced in 2001 and Thuraya 2 introduced in 2003, all built through Boeing. They are offering policies for land, marine and aviation consumers in Africa, Central Asia, Europe and the Middle East.
Thuraya 3 introduced in 2008, however, the satellite “suffered an unforeseen payload anomaly that caused a continuous interruption,” according to the company.
A Falcon Nine rocket was introduced 418 times. It is SpaceX’s 435th project as a whole.
In 2024, there were more than SpaceX orbital missions.
SpaceX closed out 2024 with a New Year’s Eve launch from Florida.
The company is also planning Falcon 9 launches of Starlink satellites that were pushed back one day to 12:21 EST Monday from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 and 10:51 a.m. Tuesday from Kennedy Space Center’s launch pad 39A.
Another company, Blue Origin, plans to launch a new 320 feet Glenn rocket on Wednesday with the first level reinforcement to land on a platform at sea. It is established for the 1 a. m. of the launch complex of Cape Canaveral 36.