SpaceX launches satellites for Amazon
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Amazon's third set of operational Kuiper satellites lifted off at 2:30 am EST (06:30 UTC) on Wednesday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida. SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket arced downrange over the Atlantic Ocean, heading northeast to place its payload into the Kuiper constellation at an inclination of 51.9 degrees to the equator.
An early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all companies for the year, but also the 500th successful mission for the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
On July 16, at 2:18 a.m. Eastern Time, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, dubbed the KF-01 mission, will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. And, this rocket's missi
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SpaceX is planning to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Southern California on Tuesday evening.
SpaceX conducted its 500th successful Falcon 9 mission on Sunday, marking an impressive achievement for the company, which launched in 2002. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 1:04 a.m. ET on Sunday, on the Commercial GTO-1 mission to deploy the Dror 1 geostationary communication satellite.
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See a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing separate and expose a batch of Starlink satellites to the vacuum of space. Cameras aboard both halves of the fairing captured the footage. Credit: Space.com | footage cou
The liftoff of the SpaceX Commercial GTO 1 mission is set to occur during a three and a half hour window which opens at 1:04 a.m. July 13. SpaceX typically favors the beginning of the launch window, however factors such as weather at the launch and booster landing sites play a role in timing.