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- Dmitry RogozinRussian diplomat
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket boosted the company's latest batch of Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit Wednesday, but not before launch engineers poked fun at Russia's recent comments on U.S. space vehicles.
"Time to let the American broomstick fly and hear the sounds of freedom," SpaceX launch engineer Julia Black called out just before the 8:45 a.m. EST liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. "Launch director is go for launch."
The rocket successfully launched 48 Starlink internet satellites to orbit, then returned to land on the Just Read the Instructionsdrone ship a few minutes later. It marked the booster's fourth flight to date.
The broomstick comments came after Dmitry Rogozin, head of Russia's space corporation Roscosmos, continued to assault U.S. space operations and companies on social media and in interviews.
"In a situation like this we can't supply the United States with our world's best rocket engines. Let them fly on something else like their broomsticks, I don't know what," Rogozin said on Russian television last week.
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Some American-made rockets like United Launch Alliance's Atlas V do use Russian RD-180 main engines, but others, like SpaceX's Falcon 9, fly on domestic propulsion.
Rogozin's latest comments built on similar statements he made in 2014. When the U.S. announced sanctions after Russia annexed Crimea from Ukraine, Rogozin famously said NASA astronauts could launch to the ISS on trampolines since there was no American-made vehicle capable of doing the job; the space shuttle had retired three years earlier.
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