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 Cape Canaveral FL (SPX) Jan 29, 2020
SpaceX has launched a Falcon 9 carrying it's third batch of Starlink satellites. Launch was 9:06 a.m. Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Fla. SpaceX originally said the launch would occur Monday morning, but pushed that to Tuesday because of rain and clouds near the pad. Then, on Monday evening, the company announced another slip to Wednesday "due to poor weather in the recovery area" for the first stage booster landing at sea. Even while launching from Florida, SpaceX has dealt with a number of winter weather delays for recent launches. The Starlink delays follow a delay due to high seas in the landing area for an abort test of the company's Crew Dragon capsule earlier in January. SpaceX is attempting to beat several competitors into space that have new high-speed internet networks, including OneWeb, Amazon and Telesat. So far, SpaceX is winning the race. SpaceX has 182 of its dinner table-size Starlink satellites in orbit, each weighing about 573 pounds. Today's launch carries 60 more satellites. SpaceX intends ultimately to launch tens of thousands of satellites to beam broadband around the globe. SpaceX previously launched 60 Starlink satellites at a time in May and November and Jan. 6, with two test satellites launched before that.
NASA, SpaceX complete final major flight test of crew spacecraft Washington DC (SPX) Jan 20, 2020 NASA and SpaceX completed a launch escape demonstration of the company's Crew Dragon spacecraft and Falcon 9 rocket Sunday. This was the final major flight test of the spacecraft before it begins carrying astronauts to the International Space Station under NASA's Commercial Crew Program. The launch escape test began at 10:30 a.m. EST with liftoff from historic Launch Complex 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on a mission to show the spacecraft's capability to safely separate from the r ... read more
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