![]() ![]() Location: Launch Complex 16 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Craig Bailey/FLORIDA TODAY via USA TODAY NETWORK Launch Wednesday, March 22Ĭompany / Agency: Internal Relativity Space mission The rocket is carrying a pair of communications satellites for Luxembourg-based SES. The second stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket separates from the booster after liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Friday, March 17, 2022. SpaceX's next launch, meanwhile, has been tentatively scheduled for no earlier than Friday, March 24. That's slated to include even more Starlink internet satellites. They'll spend the next several weeks raising their orbits to some 22,236 miles above Earth's surface. Once operational in orbit, the Florida-launched SES satellites will help to deliver data and digital television services to millions of homes across the United States. That mission also included a drone ship landing. It marked SpaceX's second flight of the day after a different Falcon 9 launch four hours prior from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, which boosted another batch of the company's Starlink internet satellites. EDT mission from Launch Complex 40 carried the SES 18 and 19 communications satellites to orbit for Luxembourg-based operator SES, then wrapped up with a drone ship landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Just after sunset Friday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket illuminated the Space Coast's dusk sky after an on-time liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Journalism like this takes time and resources. Please support it with a subscription here. Space is important to us and that's why we're working to bring you top coverage of the industry and Florida launches. ![]()
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