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 by Paul Brinkmann Washington DC (UPI) Mar 3, 2021
SpaceX launched another cluster of 47 of its own Starlink Internet communications satellites from Florida on Thursday, as company founder and CEO Elon Musk has confirmed Starlink use by the government of Ukraine during the conflict with Russia. The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off as planned into a mostly sunny, blue sky at 9:25 a.m. EST from Complex 39 at Kennedy Space Center. At 40 seconds into flight, SpaceX engineer Siva Baradvaj confirmed during a live broadcast "successful liftoff of the rocket carrying 47 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit." SpaceX has launched almost 2,200 Starlink satellites since May 2019, but just around 1,555 are operational, according to data published by Harvard astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, who tracks the satellites. Thursday's launch is the second Starlink mission since SpaceX lost about 40 of the satellites during a solar storm that increased air drag on them, preventing the spacecraft from reaching orbit. They burned up safely as they re-entered the atmosphere. The reusable first-stage booster for the rocket flew Thursday for the 11th time, previously launching seven Starlink missions and three additional satellite customer missions. The company successfully recovered the booster again Thursday on a barge in the Atlantic Ocean, Just Read the Instructions. SpaceX expected to confirm the deployment of the satellites around an hour after launch on its social media channels.
NASA awards SpaceX additional crew flights to Space Station Washington DC (SPX) Mar 01, 2022 NASA has awarded three additional missions to Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) of Hawthorne, California, for crew transportation services to the International Space Station as part of its Commercial Crew Transportation Capability (CCtCap) contract. The CCtCap modification, following the agency's notice of intent to procure the flights in December 2021, brings the total missions for SpaceX to nine and allows NASA to maintain an uninterrupted U.S. capability for human access to th ... read more
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