PAYPAL founder Elon Musk’s civilian spaceflight company, , achieved its first commercial success this week after its homegrown Falcon 1 rocket lofted a Malaysian Earth-imaging satellite into orbit.
As Â鶹´«Ã½ went to press, the launch on Tuesday from Kwajalein Atoll in the Pacific Marshall Islands appeared to have gone without a hitch, inserting the into a near-equatorial orbit at an altitude of 695 kilometres.
RazakSAT will fly over Malaysia 12 times a day, helping the nation’s scientists better manage its forests, farmland and marine resources.
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