Tag: Amateur Radio
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SpaceX fires Falcon 9 booster on pad 39A, aims for comsat launch Thursday
A plume of exhaust erupts from the flame trench at pad 39A during a hold-down firing of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket Monday night. Credit: William Harwood/CBS News SpaceX test-fired a Falcon 9 rocket Monday night at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, clearing the way for a launch Thursday with Qatar’s Es’hail 2 communications…
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India lofts a record 104 spacecraft on a single rocket
Credit: ISRO An Indian rocket deployed 104 spacecraft into orbit 300 miles above Earth on Tuesday, the largest pack of satellites ever launched on a single booster. The satellites from India, the United States, the Netherlands, Switzerland, Israel, Kazakhstan and the United Arab Emirates will take pictures of planet Earth, monitor the environment, validate new…
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Indian rocket set to place 104 satellites in orbit
India’s Polar Satellite Launch Vehicle is scheduled to fire into orbit early Wednesday with 104 satellites on-board, setting a record for the largest flock of spacecraft ever launched on a single rocket. Most of the payloads cocooned inside the PSLV’s nose shroud are as small as a toaster oven, set to join commercial fleets tasked…
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Chinese Earth observation satellites launched into lower-than-planned orbit
Two commercial Earth-imaging satellites launched by a Chinese Long March 2D booster Wednesday are flying in lower-than-planned orbits after an apparent rocket mishap, according to tracking data published by the U.S. military. The two SuperView 1, or Gaojing 1, satellites are flying in egg-shaped orbits ranging from 133 miles (214 kilometers) to 325 miles (524…