JAKARTA - SpaceX just launched two communication satellites in a Falcon 9 rocket towards geosynchronous transfer orbit on Saturday, October 8 yesterday.
Elon Musk's company said the Intelsat Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 satellites took off from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Station, United States, at 19.05 local time.
On SpaceX's official Twitter website, @SpaceX, the Intelsat Galaxy 33 satellite in the Falcon 9 head launched about 33 minutes after the boot, while the Galaxy 34 followed five minutes later.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket has now returned to Earth and landed aboard the SpaceX drone, A Shortfall of Gravity. The landing process is about 8.5 minutes after launch.
SpaceX on its official website said it was the launch and landing of the 14 boosters. This is also a separate record for SpaceX in carrying out the mission.
The rocket has previously succeeded in the GPS III-3, Turksat 5A, Transporter-2, and 10 Starlink missions.
Regarding Intelsat Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34, the two satellites will operate at the top of spectrum C-band, which is a range of wireless radio frequencies for telecommunications and data connections around the world.
Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 are known to be jointly worked on by Northrop Grumman and then selected for Intelsat in 2020.
Previously, SpaceX successfully launched a crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA and also deployed 52 Starlink satellites on Wednesday 11 October.
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