SpaceX is launching a communications satellite for airplane and sea Web companies, and you may watch the occasion life.
SpaceX will use a Falcon 9 rocket to launch the Eutelsat 10B mission on behalf of Eutelsat Monday (Nov. 21) at 9:57 p.m. EST (0257 GMT Tuesday, Nov. 22). Reside protection will likely be accessible right here at House.com, courtesy of SpaceX, about quarter-hour earlier than the liftoff.
The mission will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in coastal Florida; the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage is predicted to the touch down on a close-by drone ship, stationed within the Atlantic Ocean, roughly 10 minutes after liftoff. This would be the eleventh launch for this Falcon 9 first stage, in response to SpaceX.
“The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission beforehand launched Telstar 18 Vantage, Iridium-8 and eight Starlink missions,” SpaceX officials wrote of the rocket. (Starlink is SpaceX’s broadband Web sequence of satellites, with greater than 3,000 presently lively in orbit.)
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Through the launch, Eutelsat 10B will likely be positioned right into a geostationary switch orbit to make its option to a geosynchronous orbit, that means that it’s going to orbit the Earth in such a option to constantly stare upon one a part of the planet under.
Eutelsat 10B will embrace a high-capacity communications payload within the Ku-band “within the busiest air and sea site visitors zones” over the North Atlantic, Europe, the Mediterranean basin and the Center East, Eutelsat officials wrote (opens in new tab) of the mission. A second Ku-band payload will likely be accessible for the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean.
The satellite additionally carries two widebeam C- and Ku-band payloads for current prospects upon Eutelsat 10A, Eutelsat officers said. The brand new satellite will exchange the 12-year-old Eutelsat 10A, which is predicted to enter its finish of service in 2023 for patrons within the Americas and Asia.
Elizabeth Howell is the co-author of “Why Am I Taller (opens in new tab)?” (ECW Press, 2022; with Canadian astronaut Dave Williams), a guide about space medication. Observe her on Twitter @howellspace (opens in new tab). Observe us on Twitter @Spacedotcom (opens in new tab) or Facebook (opens in new tab).
