SpaceX, Falcon 9 and Amazon
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Onboard was a batch of 28 Starlink v2-Mini high-speed internet communications satellites headed into low-Earth orbit at an altitude of 279 km, inclined 53.16 degrees. This was the 19th mission into this shell, which saw its first launch just over a year ago, the vast majority of which have launched from this pad.
SpaceX provided a lift for a competitor in the satellite broadband sector with the Falcon 9 launch of spacecraft for Amazon’s Project Kuiper July 16.
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An early Sunday morning SpaceX launch marked the 60th orbital mission from the Space Coast from all companies for the year, but also the 500th successful mission for the workhorse Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX conducted its 500th successful Falcon 9 mission on Sunday, marking an impressive achievement for the company, which launched in 2002. The Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral in Florida at 1:04 a.m. ET on Sunday, on the Commercial GTO-1 mission to deploy the Dror 1 geostationary communication satellite.
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Space.com on MSNSpaceX rocket sets reuse record on 500th Falcon 9 launchSpaceX conducted its 500th Falcon 9 rocket launch early this morning (July 2) and broke its own reuse record in the process. The milestone mission lifted off with 27 Starlink satellites at 2:28 a.m. EDT (0628 GMT) today from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets have now notched 249 consecutive successful missions dating back to a pre-flight explosion in 2016 of a Falcon 9 on its launch pad in Florida.
Falcon 9 and the larger Falcon Heavy rockets remain the reliable rocket choices for SpaceX as it continues to develop the Starship and Super Heavy that flies for now from the company’s test ...
See a SpaceX Falcon 9 fairing separate and expose a batch of Starlink satellites to the vacuum of space. Cameras aboard both halves of the fairing captured the footage. Credit: Space.com | footage cou