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SpaceX poised for back-to-back launches Sunday at Cape Canaveral

August 29, 2020 Stephen Clark

SpaceX is readying two Falcon 9 rockets for a pair of flights nine hours apart Sunday from separate pads along Florida’s Space Coast. Weather permitting, the back-to-back departures Sunday would mark shortest span between two orbital-class launches from Cape Canaveral since 1966.

Up to three launches planned this weekend from Cape Canaveral

August 28, 2020 Stephen Clark

Delays have set up the possibility of up to three rocket launches this weekend from different pads along Florida’s Space Coast, including two SpaceX missions on Sunday that could set a company record for the shortest span between two Falcon 9 rocket launches. But in the world of ever-changing launch schedules, numerous factors such as weather and technical issues could thwart launch plans this weekend.

Watch a live view of launch pad 39A (members only)

August 28, 2020 Spaceflight Now

Watch a live view of launch pad 39A, where SpaceX plans to launch the 12th batch of satellites for the Starlink broadband network.

August set to end with string of launches from Cape Canaveral

August 24, 2020 Stephen Clark

Launch teams are readying three rockets for a series of blastoffs this week from Cape Canaveral to loft a classified orbiting spy platform for the U.S. government, a long-delayed Argentine radar imaging payload, and the next set of Starlink broadband satellites.

Images: SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites, catches rocket’s payload fairing

August 20, 2020 Stephen Clark

Imagery from the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday show the launcher vaulting into space from Cape Canaveral with another batch of nearly 60 Starlink satellites, followed by the successful recovery of the rocket’s first stage booster and payload shroud offshore.

SES orders two more Falcon 9 launches from SpaceX

August 20, 2020 Stephen Clark

SES announced Thursday it has tapped SpaceX for two additional Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral to deliver more Boeing-built O3b mPower broadband satellites into orbit, adding to a pair of Falcon 9 flights ordered by SES last year to launch the first batch of mPower platforms beginning in late 2021.

SpaceX adds more satellites to ever-growing Starlink network

August 18, 2020 Stephen Clark

A Falcon 9 rocket loaded with 58 more broadband relay nodes for SpaceX’s Starlink Internet network took off Tuesday from Cape Canaveral, bringing the total number of Starlink craft launched since May 2019 to 653 satellites.

NASA sets Oct. 23 as target launch date for first operational Crew Dragon mission

August 14, 2020 Stephen Clark

The first operational flight of SpaceX’s Crew Dragon spacecraft with four astronauts aboard is set to launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida no earlier than Oct. 23, following a formal certification review to assess data from the Crew Dragon’s two-man test flight that concluded earlier this month, NASA said Friday.

SpaceX closes out busy week with launch of more Starlink satellites

August 7, 2020 Stephen Clark

With a Falcon 9 rocket launch Friday, SpaceX added 57 more satellites to the Starlink broadband fleet and deployed a pair of piggyback commercial Earth-imaging reconnaissance satellites for BlackSky, wrapping up a busy week that began with SpaceX’s return of two NASA astronauts to Earth and the first low-altitude test flight of the company’s next-generation Starship vehicle.