SpaceX

In its sixth mission for July and it’s thirty-third mission of the year, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink this morning from Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Liftoff from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida occurred at 9:38 a.m. EDT (1338 GMT).

This was the eight flight of booster B1062.

A crowd gathered on Playalinda Beach on the Cape Canaveral National Seashore to watch Falcon 9 lift off on July 24, 2022.
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Falcon 9 pierces the sky on its way to orbit, July 24, 2022
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On Thursday, July 7 at 9:11 a.m. ET, SpaceX launched 53 Starlink satellites from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

Falcon 9 lifts SpaceX Starlink mission off of SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on July 9, 2022. This was the view (cropped) from Bennett Causeway on FL-528, about 11 miles away.
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While waiting out a long hold due to lazy thunderstorms that were lingering too close to SLC-41 to safely launch United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V set to carry the US Space Force’s payload designated as USSF-12, I grabbed a few interesting shots from the nearby launch pads.

Out at LC-39A, SpaceX is constructing its launch tower for future Starship missions.
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SpaceX launched an Egyptian communications satellite toward a geostationary orbit June 8th from Cape Canaveral. It was the first commercial launch of a geostationary payload in 2022 as the market shifts towards lower-orbit satellites.

Falcon 9 rocket blasted off at 5:04 p.m. EDT (2104 GMT) from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

As seen from Bennett Causeway:

SpaceX, Falcon 9, NileSat 301, June 8, 2022
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