Tag: Starlink
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Starlink v1.0 L28 mission completes first “shell” of satellites for worldwide coverage
SpaceX’s 16th Falcon 9 launch of the year on Wednesday May 26 lifted off with 60 Starlink satellites to finish the first of five orbital shells for the constellation. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) occurred on time at 2:59 PM EDT (18:59 UTC). The Starlink constellation promises to provide high speed broadband internet…
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SpaceX flies historic 10th mission of a Falcon 9 as Starlink constellation expands
SpaceX conducted the historic 10th flight of a Falcon 9 rocket booster on the Starlink V1.0 L27 mission Sunday. The mission launched from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on 9 May at 02:42 EDT / 06:42 UTC with an 80% positive launch weather and a “low risk” for recovery weather. This mission marked…
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SpaceX resumes parallel pad operations with Starlink v1.0 L25 mission
Both of SpaceX’s Florida launch pads are back into Starlink launch flow as the company continues to deploy the satellite internet constellation with the Starlink v1.0 L25 mission lifting off from LC-39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 15:01 EDT / 19:01 UTC on Tuesday, 4 May. Following a relatively quiet stretch at 39A surrounding…
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Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education and entertainment. That’s the promise of up-and-coming satellite broadband — an ambitious and controversial plan to connect far reaches of the planet. Related: How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and…
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Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education and entertainment. That’s the promise of up-and-coming satellite broadband — an ambitious and controversial plan to connect far reaches of the planet. Related: How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and…
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Imagine a world where high-speed internet blankets every corner of the globe, transforming the way people access health care, education and entertainment. That’s the promise of up-and-coming satellite broadband — an ambitious and controversial plan to connect far reaches of the planet. Related: How commercial space stations could become the final frontier for data and…
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Starlink v1.0 L24 launches as SpaceX receives permission for Starlink modifications
SpaceX launched the Starlink v1.0 L24 mission with another 60 satellites for the Starlink internet constellation late on Wednesday, April 28 at 11:44 PM EDT (03:44 UTC on April 29) from SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Just Read the Instructions, one of the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ships (ASDS) that SpaceX uses to…
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Amazon sees ‘positive outcome’ after FCC puts conditions on a shift in SpaceX Starlink satellites
An artist’s conception shows the deployment of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. (SpaceX Illustration) The Federal Communications Commission has given the go-ahead for SpaceX to modify the planned orbits for future satellites in its Starlink broadband internet constellation — a move that SpaceX says will result in improved, safer operations but has faced resistance from Amazon’s Project…
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SpaceX launches Starlink v1.0 L23 mission
SpaceX has launched another batch of 60 Starlink satellites on the Starlink v1.0 L23 mission. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred on time on April 7 at 12:34 PM EDT (16:34 UTC). This was the third time a Falcon 9 first stage flew a seventh mission,…
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SpaceX leases new 125,000-square-foot complex in Seattle area as Starlink satellite operation grows
An artist’s conception shows one of the buildings currently under construction at Redmond Ridge Business Park. (Illustration via Kidder Mathews) SpaceX is leasing a 124,907-square-foot building complex that’s under construction in Redmond Ridge Business Park, east of Seattle, according to the latest industrial real estate market report from Kidder Mathews. Kidder Mathews, which listed the…