Weather conditions ought to be incredible for the early morning send off of a SpaceX Hawk 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Power Station early Sunday, a mission that will take more Starlink web satellites to circle. Space Force forecasters predicted on Friday that the 230-foot rocket would encounter 90% “go” weather around Launch Complex […]
Elon Musk, the founder of SpaceX, stated on Saturday that the company would not be ready for a second attempt to reach orbit until it has completed hundreds of modifications to its Super Heavy-Starship rocket and the massive booster’s Texas launch pad. That assumes permission to fly from the Federal Aviation Administration following the dramatic […]
On February 17, SpaceX carried out the launch of a satellite for Inmarsat, expanding the operator’s capacity for partnerships in the developing direct-to-device market. From Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, a Falcon 9 carrying the British company’s Inmarsat-6 F2 (I-6 F2) satellite took off at 10:59 p.m. Eastern. After about 32 minutes, I-6 […]
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into clear skies over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday, completing a coast-to-coast flurry of launches 24 hours apart. The 230-foot rocket, which took off from Launch Complex 40, carried 53 Starlink satellites at 4:40 p.m. EDT and, less than an hour later, carried them into low-Earth orbit. […]