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SpaceX delivers for Turkey in first launch of 2021
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket thundered into space from Cape Canaveral and deployed a Turkish communications satellite Thursday night, the first of more than 40 Falcon rocket missions scheduled this year from launch pads in Florida and California.
Photos: Falcon 9 poised for first launch of 2021
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is standing more than 20 stories tall on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ready for blastoff with the Turksat 5A communications satellite.
Falcon 9 launch timeline with Turksat 5A
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket is set for liftoff from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, heading due east over the Atlantic Ocean to deliver the Turkish Turksat 5A communications satellite into orbit around 33 minutes later.
VideoLive coverage: SpaceX launches first mission of 2021
For its first mission of the year, SpaceX launched the Airbus-built Turksat 5A communications satellite to cover Turkey, the Middle East, Europe, and Africa with data relay and television broadcast services. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:15 p.m. EST Thursday (0215 GMT Friday).
Turksat telecom satellite set to launch on SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket
A Turkish-owned communications satellite is set to rocket into orbit Thursday night from Cape Canaveral to open SpaceX's 2021 launch schedule.
U.S. companies, led by SpaceX, launched more than any other country in 2020
Leading all other nations, U.S. launch providers flew 44 missions in 2020 that aimed to place payloads in Earth orbit or deep space, with 40 successes. China followed with 35 successful orbital missions in 39 launch attempts.
Three astronauts assigned to Crew Dragon mission in late 2021
Rookie astronaut Raja Chari -- a former U.S. Air Force fighter pilot -- veteran physician-astronaut Tom Marshburn, and European Space Agency astronaut Matthias Maurer have been assigned to fly to the International Space Station on a SpaceX Crew Dragon spaceship in the fall of 2021.
Two payloads orbited by SpaceX’s launch of NRO mission
Tracking information released by the U.S. military indicates two government payloads rode a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Dec. 19 on the NROL-108 mission, a dedicated launch for the National Reconnaissance Office.
SpaceX closes out record-setting year of launches from Florida’s Space Coast
SpaceX hurled a secret cargo into space for the U.S. government's spy satellite agency Saturday, the 30th rocket launch to fly into Earth orbit from pads on Florida's Space Coast in 2020. The Falcon 9 flight broke an annual record for missions to reach orbit from the Florida spaceport that stood for 54 years.
SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 launch to assess second stage issue
SpaceX scrubbed a Falcon 9 launch attempt Thursday to evaluate a "slightly high" pressure reading in the rocket's upper stage liquid oxygen tank, and officials have rescheduled the company's final mission of the year for Saturday morning.