![]() ![]() Follow us, or on Facebook and Instagram. Mike Wall is the author of " Out There " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. SpaceX test fired a Falcon 9 on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral tonight to try to clear the booster for its 16th flight. Saturday's launch marked SpaceX's 33rd launch of 2023 and its 238th launch overall. You can follow the mission on with our Ax-2 mission live updates page. A SpaceX Falcon 9 Heavy rocket sits prepared to launch the Jupiter 3/Echostar 24 communications satellite for the Hughes Network System at 11:04 p.m. Saudi Arabia is flying two astronauts on the mission, Ali AlQarni and Rayyanah Barnawi, with Barnawi becoming the first Saudi woman to fly in space. SpaceX's Falcon 9 Rocket Launched Today in the Early Morning Darkness Carrying What Could be the First Commercial Spacecraft to Visit the International. Called the Ax-2 mission, the flight is commanded by former NASA astronaut Peggy Whitson, with paying customer John Shoffner serving as pilot. ![]() On Sunday (May 21), the company will launch its third rocket in three days, this time to fly four private astronauts to the International Space Station for the commercial company Axiom Space. The company also launched 22 of its own Starlink "V2 mini" internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast on Friday.Īnd SpaceX isn't finished for the weekend. This launch will be the second in rapid succession for SpaceX. "We built extra satellites as an insurance policy, and with SpaceX's stellar track record, we look forward to another successful launch, which will position us even better to replicate the longevity of our first constellation," he added. "Our constellation is incredibly healthy however, the spare satellites have no utility to us on the ground," Iridium CEO Matt Desch said in a statement in September 2022, when this SpaceX launch was announced. (Iridium already has nine spare satellites in orbit.) ![]() The five Iridium satellites are spares that will provide further backup for the company's 66 currently operational telecom satellites. 10 weird things about SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites ET on Sunday, April 30, for the next launch attempt of the Falcon Heavy mission from Kennedy Space Center. The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on a. Space Force’s sixth third-generation navigation satellite for the Global Positioning System. SpaceX launches 1st batch of new 'V2 mini' Starlink satellites to orbit Update: Due to weather, SpaceX is now targeting 7:29 p.m. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the U.S. ![]()
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