{"id":21618,"date":"2024-08-21T00:01:07","date_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:01:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/this-week-in-launch-spacex-shooting-for-sub-three-day-launch-pad-turnaround\/"},"modified":"2024-08-21T00:01:07","modified_gmt":"2024-08-20T16:01:07","slug":"this-week-in-launch-spacex-shooting-for-sub-three-day-launch-pad-turnaround","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/this-week-in-launch-spacex-shooting-for-sub-three-day-launch-pad-turnaround\/","title":{"rendered":"This Week in Launch: SpaceX shooting for sub-three day launch pad turnaround"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This week will be another week of Starlink launches from SpaceX after a short break from the company to launch some missions commercially, how nice of them. With that, according to the current launch manifest, two Starlink missions are scheduled to lift off from the same launch pad in less than three days.<\/p>\n

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This Week\u2019s Launches:<\/h2>\n
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  • August 20 (Tuesday)\n
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    • SpaceX | Falcon 9 | Starlink Group 10-5 | 5:36 A.M. ET\n
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      • SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
      • August 22 (Thursday)\n
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        • CASC | Long March 7A | Unknown Payload | 8:25 A.M. ET\n
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          • LC-201, Wenchang Space Launch Site, China<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
          • August 23 (Friday)\n
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            • SpaceX | Falcon 9 | Starlink Group 8-6 | 3:46 A.M. ET\n
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              • SLC-40, Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n
              • SpaceX | Falcon 9 | Starlink Group 9-5 | 1:00 A.M. PT\n
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                • SLC-4E | Vandenberg Space Force Base, California<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n

                  Spaceflight news roundup<\/h2>\n

                  NASA share members of SpaceX\u2019s Crew-10 mission:<\/strong> Lifting off no earlier than February of 2025, the mission will be commended by NASA\u2019s Anne McClain and piloted by NASA\u2019s Nichole Ayers, with JAXA\u2019s Takuya Onishi and Roscosmos\u2019 Kirill Peskov serving as mission specialist. This will take the spot of what was hopefully Boeing\u2019s first operational Starliner mission, however that has now been delayed due to continued spacecraft issues. [NASA]<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  Dawn Aerospace hoping for supersonic test flight:<\/strong> The New Zealand company is hoping to develop a refreshed variation of a commercial launcher for low Earth orbit \u2013 launching rockets from a super sonic aircraft. After completing a sub-sonic sub-scale test campaign, the company announced its next campaign will feature speeds faster than the SR-71. [Dawn Aerospace]<\/strong><\/p>\n

                  SpaceX wants to build three new LZs in Florida:<\/strong> The new landing zones will be built at SpaceX\u2019s existing launch sites LC-39A and SLC-40 but no reason for their construction has been given. SpaceX\u2019s current LZ-1 and LZ-2 on Cape Canaveral Space Force Station go regularly unused for most of the year and the company\u2019s future Starship rocket plans to use catch arms on its launch pad for recovery. [Florida Today]<\/strong><\/p>\n

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