
@SpaceX is targeting NET Wednesday for its first 8x-flown #Falcon9, shortest launch-to-launch turnaround of any orbital-class booster & 1,000th Starlink. […]
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![]() SpaceX’s B1049 powers into the night, setting a new record of only four days between two East Coast launches of the Falcon 9. Photo Credit: SpaceX The smoke, noise and euphoria of last Saturday’s spectacular launch of Dragon Endeavour and her crew—NASA veterans Doug Hurley and Bob Behnken—had barely settled when another Falcon 9 […] ![]() B1049 launches a 60-strong batch of Starlink satellites on its most recent mission in January, the first U.S. spaceflight of the 2020s. Photo Credit: Mike Killian/AmericaSpace SpaceX’s foot is firmly on the gas as the organization prepares for its ninth launch of 2020 and its second in less than a week. Following the triumphant […] ![]() Following today’s launch, 40 percent of the Iridium NEXT constellation are now safely in Low-Earth Orbit (LEO). Photo Credit: Iridium/SpaceX/Twitter After a year of records and “personal bests”, SpaceX aims to launch a pair of Upgraded Falcon 9 boosters within two days of each other this week, delivering a ten-strong batch of Iridium […] ![]() The Upgraded Falcon 9 rises into the gloom at 11:51 a.m. PDT on Thursday, 24 August. Photo Credit: Robert C. Fisher/AmericaSpace SpaceX successfully delivered one of its smallest primary payloads into orbit, early Thursday, 24 August, when a mammoth Upgraded Falcon 9 booster lifted off from Space Launch Complex (SLC)-4E at Vandenberg Air […] |