PARIS — Spaceflight Industries said four of the 64 satellites it launched in December on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as part of Spaceflight’s SSO-A mission remain unaccounted for and that 19 of the 64 remain to be identified.
The December launch was hailed as a technical feat by the industry but drew criticism from satellite tracking experts because of the difficulty of identifying so many small satellites released in such a short period of time.
Seattle-based Spaceflight sought to nuance the situation . . .
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