Replace for Oct. 7, 7:00 p.m. EDT: SpaceX is now focusing on a Saturday (Oct. 8) launch at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 GMT) for its Intelsat G-23/G-24 mission to permit “extra time for automobile checkouts” according to a SpaceX (opens in new tab). You possibly can watch it above.
Replace for Oct. 7: SpaceX is now focusing on a Friday launch at 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT) to launch its Intelsat G-23/G-24 mission after an computerized abort on Oct. 6. You possibly can watch it above.
SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on its record-tying 14th mission Friday (Oct. 6), and you may watch the motion reside.
The Falcon 9, topped with Intelsat’s Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 satellites, is scheduled to raise off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral House Power Station Thursday throughout a 69-minute window that opens at 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT). Watch it reside right here at House.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the company (opens in new tab).
If all goes in keeping with plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come again to Earth and land on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship about 8.5 minutes after launch. The robotic ship will probably be stationed within the Atlantic Ocean, a number of hundred miles off the Florida coast.
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It will likely be the 14th launch and touchdown for this explicit booster, according to a SpaceX mission description (opens in new tab). The rocket beforehand helped launch the GPS III-3 and Turksat 5A satellites, the Transporter-2 rideshare mission and 10 huge batches of SpaceX’s Starlink web satellites.
Fourteen missions is the present document for a Falcon 9 first stage, set just last month throughout a launch that lofted the BlueWalker 3 communications satellite and 34 Starlinks.
The mission timeline requires Galaxy 33 to be deployed about 33 minutes after liftoff and Galaxy 34 to observe go well with 5 minutes later.
The duo “are the following satellites in Intelsat’s complete Galaxy fleet refresh plan, a brand new technology of know-how that can present Intelsat Media clients in North America with high-performance media distribution capabilities and unmatched penetration of cable headends,” Luxembourg-based Intelsat wrote in a statement (opens in new tab). “It’s essential to Intelsat’s U.S. C-band clearing technique.”
Friday’s launch would be the third for SpaceX in a three-day stretch. On Wednesday, the corporate launched the Crew-5 astronaut mission for NASA in addition to a batch of 52 Starlink satellites.
The mission was initially purported to launch on Thursday night (Oct. 6), however the Falcon 9 initiated an auto abort shortly (opens in new tab) earlier than the deliberate liftoff. The abort was brought on by a small helium leak, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter Thursday (opens in new tab).
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