Tag: broadband
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SpaceX rideshare provides new path to orbit for BlackSky
EDITOR’S NOTE: SpaceX has scrubbed Friday’s launch attempt. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket set to launch the next 57 Starlink satellites and two BlackSky microsatellites stands on pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: Spaceflight Now Despite a growing number of rocket options, the availability of on-time launch services remains a key factor in…
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SpaceX postpones Starlink launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket stands vertical on pad 39A Friday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Credit: Spaceflight Now SpaceX scrubbed the planned launch from the Kennedy Space Center of a Falcon 9 rocket Friday with the company’s next 57 Starlink Internet satellites and a pair of commercial Earth-imaging surveillance satellites. Officials did not immediately confirm…
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Live coverage: SpaceX scrubs Starlink launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch SpaceX’s tenth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter. Spaceflight Now members can watch a live view of the pad. Join…
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SpaceX gearing up for another launch of Starlink broadband satellites this week
File photo of a Falcon 9 launch. Credit: Stephen Clark/Spaceflight Now For the third time in three weeks, SpaceX is preparing to launch a batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink Internet network from Florida’s Space Coast. Liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket is set for Thursday afternoon from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space…
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Starlink satellite deployments continue with successful Falcon 9 launch
A Falcon 9 rocket streaked into space just before sunrise Saturday from Cape Canaveral. Credit: SpaceX Breaking a SpaceX record for the shortest span between two missions from the same launch pad, a Falcon 9 rocket lifted off Saturday from Cape Canaveral carrying 58 more Starlink broadband satellites and three Earth-imaging spacecraft for Planet. The…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on first Starlink rideshare mission
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission will launch SpaceX’s ninth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending]
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SpaceX sends Starlink and Planet satellites to orbit in a new kind of piggyback launch
SpaceX today launched dozens more of its Starlink broadband internet satellites, plus three piggyback satellites for Planet — marking the first of the company’s in-house rideshare deliveries to orbit. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida at 5:21 a.m. ET (2:21 a.m. PT), just 10 days after the…
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Hitching a ride with SpaceX, Planet poised to complete SkySat fleet
Three of Planet’s SkySat Earth-imaging satellites are mounted on top of 58 SpaceX Starlink Internet satellites for launch Saturday. Credit: Planet / SpaceX Three of Planet’s SkySat Earth-imaging satellites are mounted on top of 58 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites for launch Saturday from Cape Canaveral on top of a Falcon 9 rocket, the first…
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SpaceX sets new mark in rocket reuse 10 years after first Falcon 9 launch
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off at 9:25 p.m. EDT Wednesday (0125 GMT Thursday) from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station with 60 more Starlink Internet satellites. Credit: Stephen Clark / Spaceflight Now On the eve of the 10th anniversary of the Falcon 9 rocket’s debut flight, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket launches with more Starlink satellites
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The mission will launch SpaceX’s eighth batch of Starlink broadband satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter [tabby title=”SpaceX webcast”] [tabby title=”SpaceX mission audio”] [tabbyending]