According to foreign media reports, according to its "small sat rideshare program" of launching small satellites to reduce costs, SpaceX, a space exploration company, successfully launched 143 small satellites into space from Florida on Sunday morning local time, setting the highest number of satellites in a single launch.

The launch, named transporter-1 mission, opened a potentially lucrative business line for SpaceX. SpaceX launched its small satellite launch "carpooling program" in 2019, that is, just like taxi carpooling, the rocket will carry dozens or more satellites of different shapes and sizes at one time. The plan provides relatively cheap satellite launching and carrying services for small satellite companies, so they no longer need to buy expensive launch rockets when launching their own satellites.

The launch was delayed on Saturday due to bad weather. 24 hours later, SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket launched from the launch pad of Cape Canaveral space station in Florida at 10 a.m. EDT Sunday, successfully putting the shoe box sized cubesats and heavier microsatellites into 326 mile high polar orbit. The launch is an unusual mission for a launch site in Florida. SpaceX launched its first polar mission from Florida last August.

Sunday's launch is SpaceX's third mission this year and the highest number of satellites carried by a rocket, breaking India's record of carrying 104 satellites in a single launch in 2017. The 143 satellites carried by the falcon-9 rocket used in SpaceX's launch include 48 earth imaging satellites, which are called "super pigeons" from planets, 17 micro communication satellites from Kepler in Toronto, and 30 small satellites packaged by exolaunch in Berlin for the United States and Europe.

In addition, the mission also includes small capsules of human ashes arranged by celestis, a space Memorial company. Ten Starlink satellites also got on the "carpool", which makes the number of active satellites in SpaceX's broadband Internet space constellation network a step further to the 1000 mark. (Tianmen Mountain)

Source: Netease technology report, translated by Baidu