SpaceX launches 40 spacecraft and re-lands booster
On Friday, April 1 at 12:24 pm ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched the Transporter-4 mission. Liftoff took place from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. It was the seventh launch and landing of this Falcon 9 booster, which previously supported launch of Crew-1, Crew-2, SXM-8, CRS-23, IXPE, and one Starlink mission. Following stage separation, the booster landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
Transporter-4 is SpaceX’s fourth dedicated smallsat rideshare program mission, carrying 40 spacecraft onboard: CubeSats, microsats, picosats, non-deploying hosted payloads, and an orbital transfer vehicle that will deploy spacecraft at a later time.
Transporter-4 lifts off on a Falcon 9 rocket, April 1, 2022
Photo Credit: John Pisani / Cosmic Perspective
