11/14/2023 0 Comments Falcon 9 launch today![]() The Italian radar satellite launched from Cape Canaveral on Monday, and a classified National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite launched on a Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. One of those, carrying an Italian radar satellite, suffered a series of delays caused by bad weather and a cruise ship in the downrange launch hazard area. The Starlink 4-7 mission was delayed from last weekend to wait for two higher-priority Falcon 9 launches. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife Photography A Falcon 9 rocket ascends into space Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The landing concluded the sixth trip to space for the reusable B1061 booster stage. The first stage on Thursday’s mission, tail number B1061, landed on SpaceX’s drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean near the Bahamas. The satellites will unfurl solar arrays and turn on ion thrusters to maneuver into their operational orbit at an altitude of 335 miles (540 kilometers) The deployment occurred when the rocket was flying outside the range of ground tracking stations, and SpaceX didn’t receive telemetry verifying the separation occurred until the rocket flew around Earth and passed over a tracking site in Alaska. SpaceX confirmed the Falcon 9’s upper stage reached the planned orbit, but officials had to wait an hour-and-a-half to confirm the successful separation of the 49 satellites. The mission, designated Starlink 4-7 in SpaceX’s launch schedule, aimed to release the Starlink satellites at T+plus 15 minutes, 31 seconds, into an orbit ranging in altitude between 130 miles and 210 miles (210 by 339 kilometers) at an inclination of 53.2 degrees to the equator. ![]() Thrust from nine Merlin engines powered the launcher into a clear sky on a course southeast from Florida’s Space Coast. Credit: Michael Cain / Spaceflight Now / Coldlife PhotographyĪnother 49 Starlink internet satellites lifted off Thursday from Kennedy Space Center in Florida atop a Falcon 9 rocket, notching SpaceX’s third launch and landing this week, and the company’s sixth mission in 28 days.Ī Falcon 9 rocket launched from pad 39A at the Florida spaceport at 1:13:20 p.m. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off Thursday with 49 more Starlink internet satellites.
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