SpaceX Launches 143 Satellites In A Single Flight, Setting New World Record

During yesterday's satellite launch, SpaceX just achieved a new world record for the number of satellites brought up in a single rocket launch. This time, SpaceX's rocket sent 143 satellites into space, breaking the old record of the Indian Space Research Organization ISRO with 104 satellites in 2017.

Like the Uber service for bringing satellites into space, from 2019, SpaceX has introduced the SmallSat Rideshare Program, to launch multiple satellites of different shapes and sizes at a cheaper price.

Instead of paying tens of millions or even hundreds of millions of dollars for a rocket to get their satellite out of space, through SpaceX's SmallSat program, for the first 220 kg, small satellite companies pay as little as $1 million.

During this Falcon 9 rocket launch, the 143 satellites it carried were 48 SuperDoves from the Planet, 17 microsatellites from Kepler in Toronto, and 30 small satellites from Exolaunch, a German packaging company.

There were 10 Starlink satellites launched in the same batch, taking the company closer to its 1,000 satellites milestone in outer space for its satellite internet service.

According to the data of Jonathan McDowell, a Harvard astronomer, and a satellite tracking expert, in the past 16 days, the number of satellites that SpaceX has launched into space is more than the total number of satellites launched from 2013 up to now.

Besides breaking the world record for the number of satellites sent into space in one launch, this event showed that it was a promising business for SpaceX in the future.

Demand for launching satellites is growing worldwide, and SpaceX is nearly the only supplier with cheap and stable reusable rockets.

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