SpaceX’s Falcon Heavy rocket has conducted its second flight on Thursday, carrying its first customer payload – the Arabsat-6A communications satellite into space. Following a delay on Wednesday due to unacceptable Upper Level winds, Falcon Heavy lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at the start of a one hour, 57-minute window that opened at 18:35 Eastern Time (22:35 UTC), taking a little over 34 minutes to deploy its payload into geosynchronous transfer orbit.
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CommercialSpaceX
SpaceX conducts Static Fire on Falcon Heavy ahead of Arabsat 6A launch
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Arianespace has conducted its sixth Ariane 5 mission of the year with the launch of…
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Arianespace have returned to action on Wednesday, as their Ariane 5 ECA launched two more…
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Arianespace have finally launched their second mission of the year via the Ariane 5 ECA,…
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International Launch Services (ILS) are filling up their order books with another Arabsat contract, after…
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SpaceX launched another Falcon 9 Block 5 on Sunday, September 4 at 10:09 PM EDT…
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CommercialInternationalSpaceXUncrewed
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With the first half of 2022 coming to a close, NASA teams are continuing work…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
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SpaceX launched 48 Starlink internet communication satellites to low Earth orbit Wednesday morning from Space…
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EuropeanInternationalSpaceXUncrewed
Falcon 9 finally launches with Italian CSG-2 Earth observation satellite
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As 2022 begins, the ASU (Arizona State University)-led team for the NASA Psyche spacecraft is…
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Having launched 31 orbital Falcon 9 missions and four suborbital Starship tests, 2021 was the…
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OtherUncrewed
NOAA recovers from latest GOES-17 weather satellite issue, plans to replace it next year
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SpaceX has launched another next-generation Global Positioning System (GPS) satellite for the United States Space…
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CommercialSpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX launches Starlink rideshare mission as constellation deployment milestone nears
SpaceX launched its third Starlink mission in just 11 days on the v1.0 L26 flight.…
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CommercialSpaceX
SpaceX evolving fairing recovery plans, taking advantage of Octagrabber in pursuit of rapid reusability
SpaceX set a company record with 25 orbital launches in 2020. All but five of…
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A new Falcon booster has been installed on the test stand at SpaceX’s Rocket Development…
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SpaceXUncrewed
SpaceX Launches Eighth Starlink Mission, Read The Instructions With East Coast Droneship Debut
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