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SpaceX’s Historic Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A Launch Is a Success

SpaceX’s Historic Falcon Heavy Arabsat-6A Launch Is a Success
SpaceX launches its Falcon Heavy rocket, and passenger Arabsat-6A, on April 11. (SpaceX0

The Arabsat-6A satellite is on its way to its intended orbit at 30.5 degrees East after its successful launch on SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket, the Saudi operator said. The Arabsat-6A mission was also a complete success for SpaceX. Not only did the U.S. launch provider successfully lift the Arabsat payload to orbit, it also successfully landed all three of its Falcon 9, Block 5 boosters back on Earth — and retrieved the two halves of its payload fairing from the…

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