![]() January 2024: NASA’s Plankton, Aerosol Cloud Ocean Ecosystem (PACE) satellite on a SpaceX Falcon 9. The launch date is dependent on spacecraft traffic to the ISS and in-orbit activity planning and constraints that have to be coordinated with NASA. ![]() This mission is targeting a 14-day stay, and will fly up with one of the SpaceX Crew Dragons. The commercial flight brings four crew for a short stay on the ISS. No crew has been announced, but NASA requires it to be commanded by a former NASA astronaut with experience on the space station such as the Ax-1 and Ax-2 commanders. No earlier than January 2024: Axiom Space was awarded the right to fly Axiom-3. 1 launch from Wallops Island, Virginia because of issues with Russian- and Ukrainian-made rocket engines and first stage parts that are being redeveloped with Firefly Aerospace for a future Antares rocket not expected until at least 2025. This is the first of at least three SpaceX flights of Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft as part of a deal after its 10-year run of launches atop Antares rockets ended with the Aug. This will be the first ISS launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, which SpaceX has been redeveloping to support future crewed missions in addition to KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A. TBD, December 2023: SpaceX Falcon 9 with Northrop Grumman Cygnus spacecraft on the NG-20 mission to resupply the International Space Station. TBD, 4th quarter of 2023: SpaceX Falcon Heavy from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on USSF-52, the third mission for the Space Force. Also flying will be another human remains payload for Celestis Inc., this time brining the ashes of more than 150 people to space including “Star Trek” creator Gene Roddenberry and actor James Doohan who played “Scotty” on the TV series. The seventh Galaxy is heavier than the others and will be launched by itself in the first half of 2023.TBD, 4th quarter of 2023 (Delayed from May 4): First-ever launch of United Launch Alliance Vulcan Centaur on Certification-1 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 41: Slated to carry commercial company Astrobotic’s Peregrine lander to the moon, and the first two test satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper internet constellation. That includes two from Cape Canaveral, Florida, using another Falcon 9, and two from French Guiana, using a European Ariane rocket. The new satellites are being launched in pairs, with four more flights planned before the end of the year. "Galaxy" is a brand name for Intelsat relay stations serving North America. "They're part of a seven-satellite buy that we did in 2020 to replace some of our Galaxy satellites," Jean-Luc Froeliger, senior vice president of space systems at Intelsat, told Spaceflight Now. A view of launch from the nearby Kennedy Space Center as the Falcon 9 climbed away from pad 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Galaxy 33 and 34 will be used by a variety of major media outlets, including HBO, the Disney channel, Starz and the Discovery channel. ![]() The satellites are the latest in an FCC-mandated drive to free up space in the radio spectrum for 5G mobile networks, requiring new satellites to replace lost capacity. Spectacular video from the SpaceX droneship - awaiting the first stage several hundred miles down range in the Atlantic Ocean - showed the rocket's second stage exhaust plume dramatically expanding in the low-pressure upper atmosphere, an eye-catching effect best seen when backlit at dawn or sunset. ![]() The rocket's first stage, making its record-tying 14th flight, landed successfully about nine minutes after liftoff. All rocket exhaust plumes expand in the low-pressure environment of the extreme upper atmosphere, but the effect is especially striking at sunrise or sunset. A remarkable view of the Falcon 9 heading toward space as seen by a camera on board a SpaceX droneship stationed several hundred miles downrange in the Atlantic Ocean. EDT and climbed away on a due-east trajectory over the Atlantic Ocean.Īfter dropping off the well-used first stage for recovery on a SpaceX landing barge, the rocket's upper stage propelled the two-satellite payload out of the discernible atmosphere, and released them into elliptical "transfer" orbits, as planned, about 40 minutes after launch. Using a first stage making its 14th flight - the most yet for a non-SpaceX commercial customer - the latest Falcon 9 blasted off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:05 p.m. It followed two flights Wednesday, one from each coast, that were just seven hours apart. Running two days late after back-to-back scrubs, SpaceX launched a pair of Intelsat communications satellites from Cape Canaveral Saturday evening in the company's third Falcon 9 launch in as many days.
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