Company SpaceX successfully launched the same launch vehicle into space Falcon 9 For the 22nd time. The launch took place on Sunday evening, August 11. Citing the mission description, Space.com writes that two satellites were launched into Earth orbit that will provide broadband coverage in the Arctic.

Rocket Falcon 9 The two-spacecraft Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) launched from California’s Vandenberg Space Center at 10:02 p.m. ET (7:02 p.m. California time; 2:02 a.m. GMT) on Sunday. The rocket’s first stage returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff as planned, soft-landing on the Of Course I Still Love You autonomous offshore platform in the Pacific Ocean.

According to the mission description, this was the 22nd launch and landing of a particular rocket booster, breaking the company’s record for the number of repeat launches set in June when another batch of Starlink Internet satellites were sent into Earth orbit using another Falcon 9 launch vehicle.

The first ASBM satellite was deployed 42.5 minutes after launch. The second five minutes later. According to Northrop Grumman, the aerospace giant that assembled the two satellites for this mission, the ASBM “Designed to expand broadband coverage in the Arctic region for the U.S. Space Force and Space Norway”Space Norway is a state-owned company that develops and manages Norway’s strategic space infrastructure.

ASBM satellites, which will operate in a highly elliptical orbit to provide coverage, are equipped with various devices. “Including a military payload for the US and Norwegian armed forces, as well as a commercial payload from telecommunications company Viasat and a radiation monitor for the European Commission.” . in its mission statement.

Sunday’s launch was part of a busy weekend for SpaceX. The company launched 21 Starlink satellites from the space station in Cape Canaveral, Florida, on Saturday morning, Aug. 10. SpaceX also planned to launch another batch of Starlink satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Florida’s Space Coast on Sunday morning, but the launch was aborted with 46 seconds left in the countdown.