Tag: Starlink
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Launch Roundup: Falcon 9’s busy launch cadence struggles
Following an extremely eventful week in Spaceflight, this week was expected to be a return to “business as usual”, with two SpaceX Starlink missions, one each from Vandenberg and Florida, and a Falcon 9 launching a customer satellite making up the launch manifest for the week. Unfortunately, the weather led to delays and cancellations, and…
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base
A stack of SpaceX Starlink satellites, which included the first six featuring Direct to Cell capabilities. The batch launched on the Starlink 7-9 mission, which lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Jan. 2, 2024. Image: SpaceX SpaceX kicked off the weekend with the launch of another batch of its Starlink satellites. The mission,…
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SpaceX launches 22 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 7, 2024. The mission, Starlink 10-1, was the first to send Starlink satellites to this shell of the mega constellation. Image: Spaceflight Now Update 8:57 p.m. EDT: SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time. SpaceX followed up its fourth…
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites on 14th anniversary of the first Falcon 9 launch
A Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 8-5 mission on June 4, 2024. The mission coincided with the 14th anniversary of the first Falcon 9 launch in 2010. Image: Spaceflight Now SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday night, 14 years to the…
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Launch Roundup – Starship launches for fourth time, Starliner launches on third attempt, Virgin Galactic to fly VSS Unity for last time
There were two high-profile missions scheduled this week after a challenging weekend that saw the scrub of another attempt to launch the first crewed Starliner and the announcement that the dearMoon project is canceled. In more positive news, it also confirmed that Chang’e 6 landed on the moon’s far side. Starship was one of two…
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SpaceX launches 14th Falcon 9 rocket of May using booster flying for 14th time
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 6-64 mission. This was the 14th Falcon 9 launch of the month of May. Image: Spaceflight Now Update 9:30 p.m. EDT: SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time to the end of the launch window to “allow…
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News from the Press Site: Business of Starlink and Boeing’s Starliner prepares to launch – News from the Press Site
In this week’s edition of News from the Press Site, Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith is joined by Mike Wall, Spaceflight and Tech Editor for Space.com; and Caleb Henry, Director of Research at Quilty Space. The panel discusses pending launch of Boeing’s first crewed Starliner mission to the International Space Station, the progress towards SpaceX’s fourth…
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Launch Roundup: North Korean launch failure, Starliner CFT, EarthCARE
As May transitions into June, a European Space Agency (ESA) mission to study the Earth’s clouds and aerosols as well as a Russian cargo ship to resupply the International Space Station (ISS) were both on this week’s docket of launches. Two Starlink and three Chinese satellite launch missions were also scheduled, as well as the…
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SpaceX completes Tuesday Starlink launch after Memorial Day scrub
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 on the Starlink 6-60 mission on May 28, 2024. Image: Adam Bernstein/Spaceflight Now Update 10:54 a.m. EDT: SpaceX launches Starlink mission. SpaceX scrubbed a Memorial Day morning Falcon 9 launch shortly before 11 a.m. EDT (1500 UTC). The company did not state a…
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on 5th anniversary of its first dedicated Starlink flight
A Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky over Central Florida amid the Starlink 6-63 mission on May 23, 2023. Image: Michael Cain/Spaceflight Now Update 11:15 p.m. EDT: SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket. SpaceX completed its third Falcon 9 launch in less than 48 hours with a mission from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. As…