Satellites

SpaceX successfully launched its Falcon 9 rocket for a record-breaking 12th time on Saturday (March 19), and then returned to Earth for yet another successful touchdown. The Falcon 9 was launched into low-Earth orbit from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 12:24am ET on March 19 (9:54am IST), carrying 53 of SpaceX's Starlink Internet satellites. This was Falcon 9 first stage's 12th flight, breaking the previous record for SpaceX rocket reusability.Through a tweet, SpaceX confirmed the deployment of the 53…

Weeks after Moscow forced the 11th-hour cancellation of a rocket launch for British satellite venture OneWeb from Russia's Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, the company said on Monday it has contracted with Elon Musk's SpaceX to send its satellites into orbit. Terms of the deal with California-based SpaceX, a direct competitor of OneWeb in the burgeoning broadband satellite industry, were not disclosed.Earlier this month, OneWeb called off the scheduled March 4 launch of 36 satellites from Baikonur and suspended ties…