Three days, three launches: with a distant thunderstorm as the backdrop tonight, SpaceX boosted a voice and data relay satellite into orbit for Globalstar. This was the view from Bennett Causeway in Port Canaveral.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 booster B1060 for a record-breaking 13th time Friday from Pad LC-39A from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:09 p.m. EDT (1609 GMT). It placed hauling 53 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit.
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 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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SpaceX launched another batch of fifty-three Starlink internet satellites at 5:42 a.m. EDT (0942Z) May 6, 2022 from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. This was its path to orbit as seen from Space View Park in Titusville.
I set up my GoPro on the beach to record the scene on Playalinda Beach when SpaceX launched Starlink 4-16.
I set up for a wide angle view to capture the entire first stage portion of the flight — it made everything look further away than it actually was, but all in all, yeah, this is what its like to see a launch from here.
Playalinda is far better for launches from Pad LC-39A, as it is much closer than SLC-40 or SLC-41, but overall, it’s still a really good place to come. After all, you’re on one of the most beautiful beaches in Florida, and it’s really not crowded, even when the parking lots are full.
As seen from Playalinda Beach late in the afternoon. The same booster carried four astronauts towards the International Space Station about three weeks earlier this month.
And then there were two. After SpaceX launched Starlink 4-14 on April 21, 2022, there were “only” two rockets standing on top of their launch pads on the Space Coast.
Artemis-1 won’t launch this time around, instead, it will return to the VAB sometime around April 26, 2022 for repairs to a faulty valve as well as other processing. While it is gone, repairs and upgrades will be made to the ground support equipment on Launch Complex 39-B, and hopefully when the rocket is rolled back out, its Wet Dress Rehearsal will run more smoothly.
Crew-4 is scheduled to launch in the pre-dawn hours on April 27th, 2022. It will head to the International Space Station and deliver four NASA astronauts there to being a six-month stint onboard.
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