Tag: GEOStar 2
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Eutelsat investigating solar array ‘incident’ on new communications satellite
EDITOR’S NOTE: Updated Oct. 25 with MEV-1 update. Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 5 West B satellite orbit. Credit: Northrop Grumman A Eutelsat communications satellite launched Oct. 9 has suffered an “incident” with one of its two solar arrays, the Paris-based operator announced Thursday. Built by Northrop Grumman, the Eutelsat 5 West B satellite is designed…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 launches with Thai satellite and first stage lands at sea
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral with the Thaicom 8 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at 5:20 p.m. EDT (2120 GMT).
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Stressing caution, SpaceX delays commercial satellite launch
Photo credit: SpaceX SpaceX scrubbed a launch Thursday to investigate a “tiny glitch” in an upper stage engine actuator on the company’s Falcon 9 rocket, delaying liftoff from Florida of a Thai communications satellite at least 24 hours. The launch firm said managers delayed the launch until no earlier than Friday “out of an abundance…
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Falcon 9 sails through customary preflight engine firing
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ignited its nine kerosene-fueled Merlin engines on the launch pad at Cape Canaveral on Tuesday evening in a critical milestone before liftoff with a commercial Thai communications satellite later in the week. Held down by restraints at Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad, the two-stage booster fired its engines for…
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Timeline for Falcon 9’s launch of the Thaicom 8 satellite
The Falcon 9 rocket’s fifth flight of the year will take off from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heaving the Thaicom 8 communications satellite into orbit on an easterly trajectory from Florida’s Space Coast. It will take about 32 minutes to inject the approximately 6,800-pound (3,100-kilogram) spacecraft into a highly elliptical geostationary transfer orbit on the…