Through the launch of Bangabandhu-1, Bangladesh is the owner of its own satellites as the 57th country in the world. This is the first successful launch of the Falcon 9 rocket new version. After half an hour of launch, the rocket carrying the Bangabandhu-1 satellite crossed the Falcon-9 Max Q. On reaching a certain height, the rocket phase -1 opens. Stage-2 starts working
Then came back to Earth on stage 1 and came down to the Atlantic floating drone ship. Falcon-9's Stage-2 reached 47 minutes at Geostationary Transfer Orbet. Bangladesh's first communication satellite is floating in space. Then the United States, Italy and South Korea's three Ground stations take control of Bangabandhu-1. To make space in its own orbital slot 119.1 east of longitude, the spacecraft has to travel 36 thousand kilometers to Bangabandhu-1 satellite.
Before this, final preparations were taken to launch Bangabandhu-1 at 3:45 pm on Thursday night. The final counting started. The first two minutes is the countdown. But in the last minute, the second spell stopped. It started in the start of the rocket launch (startup mode). It was told that Bangabandhu-1 satellite is not flying on the day. But Countdown will be introduced again on Friday. When the new time of launching the satellite was set at 2:14 pm on the eve of Bangladesh time.
Normally, an extra day is always kept in the satellite space. Because, if there is any problem on the first day so that the second day can be used. Earlier, SPACEK had informed, on the second day (backup day) Friday.
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