Update as of October 7, 7:00 PM EST: SpaceX is now targeting a file Saturday (October 8) 7:05 PM EST (2305 GMT) “Extra Vehicle Exit Time” for its Intelsat G-23/G-24 mission by company (Opens in a new tab). You can see it above.
October 7 update: SpaceX is now targeting a launch on Friday at 7:06 PM EDT (2306 GMT) to launch the Intelsat G-23/G-24 mission after the auto shutdown on October 6. You can see it above.
SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on its 14th mission on Friday (October 6), and you can watch the event live.
The hook 9, led by Intelsat’s Galaxy 33 and Galaxy 34 satellites, will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida in a 69-minute window Thursday at 7:06 p.m. EDT (2306 GMT). Courtesy of SpaceX or watch it live on SpaceX.com directly through the company (Opens in a new tab).
If all goes according to plan, the first stage of Falcon 9 will return to Earth and land on a SpaceX A Shortfall of Gravitas drone 8.5 minutes after launch. The robotic ship will dock in the Atlantic Ocean, hundreds of miles off the coast of Florida.
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This was the 14th launch and landing of this particular booster. According to the description of the mission of SpaceX (Opens in a new tab). The missile previously helped launch GPS III-3 and Turksat 5A satellites, the Transporter-2 rideshare mission and SpaceX’s 10 Big Modules. Starlink Internet Satellites.
The current record for the first phase of Falcon 9 is fourteen missions. Created last month, BlueWalker carried 3 communications satellites and 34 Starlinks.
The mission timeline calls for the Galaxy 33 to deploy 33 minutes after takeoff, with the Galaxy 34 five minutes later.
Both are “the upcoming satellites in Intelsat’s extensive Galaxy fleet modernization program, a new generation of technology that will provide Intelsat Media customers in North America with high-performance media delivery capabilities and unparalleled penetration of cable antennas,” Luxembourg-based Intelsat said. to her. wrote in a statement (Opens in a new tab). “This is critical to Intelsat’s US C band clearing strategy.”
SpaceX’s Friday launch will be the third in four days. On Wednesday, the company presented the Crew-5 astronaut mission to NASA as well as a module of 52 Starlink satellites.
The mission was originally scheduled to launch on Thursday evening (October 6), but Falcon 9 After a while, the parking lot began (Opens in a new tab) Before the scheduled lift. SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk suffered a miscarriage due to a small helium leak. He said on Twitter on Thursday (Opens in a new tab).
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