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According to expert orbital tracker and astrophysicist, Jonathan McDowell, there are more than 6,100 active Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit On Wednesday, SpaceX announced that with a recent deal from the airline, WestJet, Starlink internet service is now available on more than 1,000 aircraftThe Falcon 9 first stage booster for the Starlink 10-7 mission, tail number B1073, previously launched the ispace Hakuto-R lunar lander, the Bandwagon-1 rideshare flight and 11 Starlink missions It successfully landed on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ about eight and a half minutes after launch
It was the 79th booster landing on this particular droneship and the 337th booster landing to dateFalcon 9 Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 engine test March 27, 2017 Spaceflight Now The Falcon 9 rocket’s main engines briefly ignited at launch pad 39A in a standard pre-launch test This is the second time this booster has test fired its engines on a launch pad at Cape Canaveral Falcon 9 SpaceX launches astronauts on recycled capsule and ‘flight-proven’ rocket April 23, 2021 Stephen Clark A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket ferried a multinational crew into orbit at the break of dawn Friday with a spectacular sky-lighting launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, dazzling early risers along the East Coast with a flawless start to a planned six-month expedition on the International Space Station
Falcon 9 Auto-destruct system seen as a key to ramping up launch tempos February 25, 2017 Stephen Clark The US Air Force says the demonstration of an automated safety system on last week’s Falcon 9 rocket launch will slash and costs and hasten turnarounds between missions from military-operated ranges in Florida and California“We see quite a good market potential for this satellite because, as I mentioned, such a heavy satellite with this much of a throughput, this is the first time we are making such a high throughput satellite of this magnitude,” Sankaran told NDTV
“So, I’m confident and optimistic that we should be able to make the best use of the services that the satellite is going to provide to us”SpaceX recently filed a request to the Federal Communications Commission (FCC), seeking a modification to its current license regarding the second-generation Starlink satellites (v2) The request includes lowering the satellites’ altitude by 45 km to as low as 475 km The request also proposes that the satellites’ bandwidth be increased to gigabit-per-second speeds through more powerful antennas and that the satellites access additional spectrum in the E band
The heavier, full versions of the v2 satellites will require Starship to carry them to orbit and look to be renamed to v3 from the FCC request documentFalcon 9 SpaceX delivers for Telesat with successful early morning launch July 22, 2018 Stephen Clark An upgraded model of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket fired into orbit early Sunday from Florida’s Space Coast, hoisting a record-setting 78-ton communications satellite for Telesat toward its planned perch more than 22,000 miles over the equator“The unfolding of the first five commercial satellites is a significant milestone for the company
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Settings for the About / Help Panel Move panel to position: 123456 Expanded CollapsedSpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday night, 14 years to the day when the rocket made its launch debut from the same pad Since that day, SpaceX launched more than 340 Falcon 9 rockets, 285 of which were using previously flown boostersSpaceX launched five times in less than six days last week, with a launch from each of its four launch sites, including Starbase, and igniting 87 first-stage engines in the process The milestone OneWeb mission was the company’s sixth successful launch in seven days
LC-39A is currently being reconfigured for Falcon 9 flights, leaving Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) on the east coast and Vandenberg’s SLC-4E on the west coast to handle the Falcon 9 launch manifestFalcon 9 Jason 3 satellite shipped to Vandenberg for SpaceX launch June 18, 2015 Stephen Clark An international oceanography satellite arrived at its California launch base from a factory in France on Thursday for fueling, testing and other final preps before its scheduled Aug 8 blastoff on a Falcon 9 rocketFalcon 9 SpaceX hopes procedure fix can allow Falcon 9 launches to resume October 31, 2016 Stephen Clark Investigators probing the Sept
1 explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket on its launch pad in Florida believe a high-pressure gas tank inside the launcher’s upper stage most likely burst due to the conditions of the helium loaded into it, a finding that could simplify fixes needed before the commercial booster can return to serviceThe first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1062 in the SpaceX fleet, also launched for a 22nd time, making it the flight leader among the Falcon fleet Liftoff of the mission happened at 7:14 am
EDT (1114 UTC)The batch of 20 Starlink satellites included 13 that feature the direct to cellphone capabilities SpaceX said it had managed to make contact with five of the satellites and was attempting to raise their orbits Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who maintains a space flight database, predicted the satellites were probably in a 295 by 138 km orbit
The intended deployment orbit was 296 x 286 kmThe payload onboard was another batch of 23 Starlink v2 Mini satellites, headed into an orbit inclined 43 degrees to the equator The booster supporting this mission was B1073 on its 18th flight Active since May 2022, this booster has previously carried the CRS-27 cargo mission to the International Space Station
Liftoff of the mission happened at 7:14 a.m. EDT (1114 UTC).The batch of 20 Starlink satellites included 13 that feature the direct to cellphone capabilities. SpaceX said it had managed to make contact with five of the satellites and was attempting to raise their orbits. Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who maintains a space flight database, predicted the satellites were probably in a 295 by 138 km orbit. The intended deployment orbit was 296 x 286 km.The payload onboard was another batch of 23 Starlink v2 Mini satellites, headed into an orbit inclined 43 degrees to the equator. The booster supporting this mission was B1073 on its 18th flight. Active since May 2022, this booster has previously carried the CRS-27 cargo mission to the International Space Station. It has also supported the Hakuto-R, SES-22, Amazonas Nexus, and Bandwagon-1 rideshare missions, in addition to 12 previous Starlink launches. B1073 landed successfully on the autonomous drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which was stationed approximately 600 km downrange in the Atlantic.
