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Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch from Cape Canaveral with 23 Starlink satellites

File photo of SpaceX’s Starlink V2 Mini satellites inside a payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral earlier this year. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX is gearing up to launch 23 more satellites for its Starlink internet service from Cape Canaveral on Sunday, its second Falcon 9 launch of the day. Liftoff from pad 40 is scheduled for …

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Live Coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch 22 Starlink satellites from California

File photo of SpaceX’s Starlink V2 Mini satellites inside a payload processing facility at Cape Canaveral earlier this year. Credit: SpaceX The first of two Falcon 9 missions SpaceX is planning for Sunday will carry into orbit the largest batch of second-generation Starlink satellites to be launched from the West Coast. It will be the …

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Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket sends up 22 Starlink satellites on the Starlink Group 6-23 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein SpaceX is hoping to ace its second launch of the day with another Falcon 9 rocket, this time launching from the East Coast. The Starlink Group 6-24 mission is targeting liftoff at 10:17 p.m. EDT (0217 UTC). …

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Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch 21 Starlink satellites from California

File photo of a SpaceX’s Falcon 9 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 12:47 a.m. PDT (3:47 a.m. EDT, 0747 UTC). It is the first of two Starlink delivery missions planned for Saturday. …

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Live Coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink Satellites

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink satellites, delayed by upper level winds and held up for the Falcon Heavy launch of NASA’s Psyche, is scheduled to liftoff from Cape Canaveral’s pad 40 at 7:01 p.m. EDT (2301 UTC) on Friday night. The U.S. Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron, based at Cape Canaveral, on Thursday …

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Rideshare mission on deck for penultimate Vega rocket as Vega-C successor remains sidelined

The dozen spacecraft for the penultimate flight of an Arianespace Vega rocket prior encapsulation in the payload fairing. Image: Airbus Space A pair of Earth observation satellites along with ten auxiliary payloads will launch aboard Arianespace’s penultimate Vega rocket into sun-synchronous orbit on Friday. The light launch vehicle, which began flying in 2012, is set …

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Northrop Grumman leaves behind solo commercial space station venture, partners with Nanoracks on ‘Starlab’

A rendering of the Nanoracks/Voyager Space commercial space station orbiting the Earth. Image: Nanoracks About a year and a half after signing a Space Act Agreement with NASA to develop a commercial space station, Northrop Grumman formally withdrew from its solo plans in order to partner with Nanoracks, a subsidiary of Voyager Space. Under this …

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Live Coverage: SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Friday

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled for launch tonight on another mission to deliver satellites into orbit for SpaceX’s Starlink internet service. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is planned for 6:39 p.m. EDT (2239 UTC). It’s shaping up to be a busy night for SpaceX teams on the Florida Space …

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Rapid response Victus Nox launch success open new possibilities for Space Force, commercial space industry

Proving a quick turnaround capability for the U.S. Space Force’s Space System Command’s Space Safari Program Office, the Victus Nox mission launches using a Firefly Aerospace Alpha rocket. Image: Firefly Aerospace Nearly two weeks after the successful launch of a payload for the U.S. Space Force’s Space System Command, leaders from the branch along with …

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Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 to launch Starlink satellites from California

SpaceX is planning its 42nd Starlink delivery mission of the year with a Falcon 9 scheduled to launch from the West Coast carrying a batch of 21 satellites at 1:48 a.m. PDT (4:48 a.m. EDT / 0848 UTC) Monday morning. We’ll bring you live coverage of the Starlink launch in our Launch Pad Live stream. …

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