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A SpaceX Falcon nine rocket soared into clear skies above the Cape Canaveral Space Force station on Saturday, completing a wave of coast-to-coast launches just 24 hours apart.
The 230-foot flying rocket from Launch Complex 40 powered 53 Starlink satellites at 4:40 p. m. m. EDT and, less than an hour later, delivered them to low Earth orbit. This is the 47th version of the Webcast constellation.
It followed a launch Friday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, where Falcon nine powered batch 47 starlink satellites. Over the next two days, SpaceX has put 106 Starlinks into orbit and brought the total length of the constellation closer to 2500. Operational satellites.
Saturday’s Cape project included an all-new thruster, which made its maiden flight smoothly and landed on the Just Lea drone instructions shortly after liftoff. He is expected to return to Port Canaveral for renovation work early next week.
For the future, Space Coast is in a position to have a double title next week if the schedules are maintained.
First, SpaceX Falcon 9 is expected to launch the company’s 48th batch of Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center on Wednesday, May 18. a. m. y 6 a. m. EDT.
About 36 hours later, a United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is tasked with carrying Boeing’s Starliner capsule in its momentary demonstration project to the International Space Station. Boeing’s momentary attempt to succeed on the ISS with an unmanned capsule after a test flight in 2019 failed to achieve its goals and had to return to the ground.
NASA decided that Boeing and SpaceX would take astronauts to the ISS after the space shuttle program ended in mid-2011. Not bad.
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Launch Wednesday, May 18
Stay tuned for the exact time of takeoff in floridatoday. com/space. Real-time updates and video of the Falcon nine launch will begin 60 minutes before liftoff.
Launch Thursday, May 19
Visit floridatoday. com/space at five p. m. EL Thursday, May 19 for real-time updates and a video of the Atlas V launch.