Tag: Thaicom
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Thaicom 10 Slips to Late 2028 Launch, Deepening Thaicom’s Fleet Gap
The company is scrambling to relocate customers ahead of the Thaicom 4 retirement later this year. Thaicom 10 had been set for launch in 2027 aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. Its original launch date was late 2024, but the schedule has slipped as Airbus works through development issues on its new OneSat series of…
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Ride aboard the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage on descent
Take a virtual trip from space back to planet Earth with an sped up video clip showing the eye-popping on-board views from the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster Friday as it plummeted back to Earth, opened aerodynamic steering fins and fired its engines for a final braking maneuver just before touchdown. The 156-foot-tall booster…
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Photos: SpaceX prepares to launch 25th Falcon 9 rocket
A Thai communications satellite is fastened to the top of SpaceX’s 229-foot-tall Falcon 9 rocket for launch Thursday. See photos of the Falcon 9 and Thaicom 8 being prepared for liftoff. Launch is set for 5:40 p.m. EDT (2140 GMT) Thursday from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. It will take 32 minutes for the…