They say if you don’t like the weather here in Florida, wait half an hour and it will change. SpaceX tried that this evening with the planned launch of a Falcon 9 carrying the Starlink 6-34 group of Internet connectivity satellites, but luck was not on their side: with roughly seventy seconds left in the countdown to liftoff, an abort and scrub was called by mission controllers, due to high-level ground winds.
SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites for their orbital-based Internet service Thursday morning from Pad SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The successful launch was aboard a Falcon 9 performing its ninth mission.
The mission, designated as Starlink 5-31, added more Starlink satellites into the burgeoning constellation of over 5,500 small satellites providing Internet access from virtually anywhere on the globe.
On a cool night with fog and a slight scent of nearby prescribed forest burns mixed together into a thin layer of smog on many Space Coast waterways, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ten minutes before midnight on January 10th, 2023.
The commercial payload launch carried forty satellites for OneWeb for their commercial Internet service, nudging the company’s network closer to full operational capability. Eight minutes later, SpaceX’s Falcon 9 booster returned to Cape Canaveral for landing a few miles away from the launch site.
On a hazy, warm morning, SpaceX got right back to work after the holidays by sending Falcon9 towards a southerly polar orbit from Cape Canaveral. This was the view looking southwards and into bright sunlight. Here are photos and a link to a video of the launch:
SpaceX launched 54 Starlink satellites this morning from Cape Canaveral, closing out the 2022 launch schedule for Florida. It was yet another picture-perfect launch.
Skies were clear enough this morning to where we could see the second stage for six-ish minutes. There’s a small gap between the end of the first stage’s powered ascent and the ignition of the second stage. My aim in this photo was to capture as much as possible of the second stage, and it succeeded from that perspective.
SpaceX Starlink launch tonight. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station occurred at 10:09PM local time on September 4th, 2022. This was SpaceX’s fortieth launch of the year. The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched Arabsat-6A, STP-2, COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM2, KPLO, and two Starlink missions. In addition to the fifty-one Starlink satellites, Sherpa-LTC, an orbital transfer vehicle for customer Spaceflight Inc, a Seattle-based spacecraft developer was placed into orbit on a test mission for the company.
It was a pretty late summer night tonight, with thunderstorms to the northeast and southeast, and a nice breeze blowing off of the Indian River while we waited for liftoff. As is the usual case, we met some nice people who were seeing the first launch as well as some locals like us.
SpaceX launched fifty-nine small satellites along with experiments on Wednesday, May 25, 2002 at 2:35 p.m. EDT (1835 GMT) from Cape Canaveral using a Falcon 9 rocket. After staging, the Falcon booster returned to Cape Canaveral Space Station and landing about eight-and-a-half minutes later.
With Saharan Desert dust in the sky, SpaceX launched Falcon 9 to orbit shortly after dawn on May 18, 2022 from Pad LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The launch was originally scheduled for 6:20AM local time, or shortly before dawn here, but it was delayed for nearly forty minutes for a 06:59AM ET liftoff.
On Saturday, May 14 at 4:40 p.m. ET, SpaceX launched Starlink satellites to orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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