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Innovative satellites begin maneuvers with all-electric thrusters
Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite. Credit: Boeing Two ion-driven communications satellites launched from Cape Canaveral on March 1 have begun novel maneuvers using electric propulsion to reach operating posts 22,300 miles over the equator. The Boeing-built satellites will need at least six months slowly climb in altitude and adjust their orbital…
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Photos: Last look at Sunday’s launch by SpaceX
Sunday’s liftoff of a Falcon 9 rocket marked the 16th flight of SpaceX’s workhorse launcher, and its third mission of the year. The rocket carried two communications satellites into orbit for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite. Here is another set of launch photos from SpaceX. Photo credit: SpaceX Photo credit: SpaceX Photo credit: SpaceX Photo…
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Reader-submitted shots of Falcon 9 launch
Spaceflight Now readers sent in photos of Sunday’s blastoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral, which lit up a late-night moonlit sky over Florida’s Space Coast on the way to orbit with two communications satellites. We present a selection of the reader-submitted snapshots. Photo credit: David Hash (@turndownformars) Photo credit: David Hash…
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Plasma-driven satellites launched from Cape Canaveral
Two communications satellites blasted off Sunday aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, kicking off more than a half-year of novel maneuvers in orbit using plasma drive engines to position the spacecraft 22,300 miles above Earth and link the Americas, Europe, Africa and the Middle East. Loaded with payloads for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite, the…
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Photos: Falcon takes flight
The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off Sunday with a dual-satellite payload destined for geosynchronous orbits 22,300 miles above the Earth. Photo credit: Walter Scriptunas II / Scriptunas Images
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Boeing’s first two all-electric satellites ready for launch
Artist’s concept of the Eutelsat 115 West B satellite. Credit: Boeing A new class of Boeing-built spacecraft will fly into orbit for the first time Sunday aboard a Falcon 9 rocket, combining Boeing’s electric propulsion technology with SpaceX’s bargain launch prices to send up communications satellites at a fraction of the typical cost. SpaceX ground…
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Photos: Falcon 9 stands ready to launch dual-satellite stack
SpaceX’s 22-story Falcon 9 rocket stands on Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad Sunday, hours before the scheduled liftoff of a pair of commercial communications satellites for Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite. The mission is set for takeoff at 10:50 p.m. EST Sunday (0350 GMT Monday) at the opening of a 42-and-a-half minute launch window.…
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Falcon 9 launch timeline with Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A
Follow the key events of the Falcon 9 rocket’s ascent into space from Cape Canaveral with the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A communications satellites. Launch is set for 10:50 p.m. EST on March 1 (0350 GMT on March 2) from Cape Canaveral’s Complex 40 launch pad. The satellites will be deployed in a…
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Photos: Satellites readied for tandem launch on Falcon 9
Two communications spacecraft built by Boeing and owned by Eutelsat and Asia Broadcast Satellite will ride a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Sunday, and these pictures show the satellites stacked together and prepared for liftoff from Cape Canaveral. The images were taken at Boeing’s satellite factory in El Segundo, California, and at SpaceX’s payload processing…
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Live coverage: SpaceX Falcon 9 launches
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Falcon 9 rocket with the Eutelsat 115 West B and ABS 3A communications satellites. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.