SpaceX breaks ISRO’s Record by launcheing 143 Satellites in a single mission
- SpaceX successfully launched its ambitious rideshare mission called Transporter-1, on 24 January 2021, carrying 143 small satellites, and created a new record of launching many satellites from a single rocket.
- With this launch, SpaceX broke the record set by ISRO in February 2017 for deploying 104 satellites onboard PSLV in a single mission.
- The SpaceX used two-stage Falcon 9 rocket for the mission, from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
- The 143 satellites included 133 commercial and government satellites and 10 Starlink satellites of SpaceX.