Tag: commercial-space
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Timeline of Soyuz launch with SES 15
Follow the key events of the Soyuz rocket’s ascent into orbit from the Guiana Space Center with the SES 15 communications satellite. A listing of exact times for the flight’s major events is posted below. Data source: Arianespace T-0:00:03: Engines at Full Thrust The five main engines of the Soyuz rocket’s core stage and four…
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Soyuz meets multipurpose SES-owned telecom satellite for Thursday launch
Credit: ESA/CNES/Arianespace – Photo Optique Video du CSG – J. Durrenberger A commercial communications satellite will blast off Thursday from French Guiana on top of a Soyuz rocket, on the way to a station over the Americas to supply bandwidth to airline travelers and broadcasters in the United States, Canada and Mexico. The SES 15…
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Fourth satellite for Inmarsat’s global broadband network launched by SpaceX
Updated at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) May 16 with orbit figures. Credit: SpaceX A Boeing-built satellite on the way to join Inmarsat’s globe-spanning network geared to beam Internet and data transmission capacity to airline passengers, maritime crews and military personnel flew into orbit Monday from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida aboard an expendable…
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Video: Press site view of Falcon 9’s Monday evening takeoff
Check out a replay of Monday evening’s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center in Florida in this video recorded from the Launch Complex 39 Press Site around three miles from the pad. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launcher lifted off from pad 39A at 7:21 p.m. EDT (2321 GMT) Monday with the Inmarsat…
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Watch a replay of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch with Inmarsat 5 F4
Miss Monday night’s launch from Kennedy Space Center? Watch a replay of the Falcon 9 rocket taking off with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite, a heavyweight spacecraft designed to link airliners, ships and others on-the-go via broadband. The 229-foot-tall (70-meter) Falcon 9 rocket took off at 7:21 p.m. EDT (2321 GMT) with the 13,417-pound…
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Live coverage: SpaceX succeeds in commercial satellite launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Live coverage: SpaceX succeeds in commercial satellite launch
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida with the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite. SpaceX’s live video coverage begins at approximately 7 p.m. EDT (2300 GMT). Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter.
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Blue Origin encounters setback in BE-4 engine testing
An image of a BE-4 powerpack on a test stand in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin said Sunday that it lost a set of powerpack hardware for its BE-4 engine during a ground test mishap, dealing at least a minor setback to the development of a powerful U.S.-made propulsion system that United Launch…
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Blue Origin encounters setback in BE-4 engine testing
An image of a BE-4 powerpack on a test stand in West Texas. Credit: Blue Origin Blue Origin said Sunday that it lost a set of powerpack hardware for its BE-4 engine during a ground test mishap, dealing at least a minor setback to the development of a powerful U.S.-made propulsion system that United Launch…
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Photos: Falcon 9 rocket, fourth Inmarsat 5-series satellite prepared for launch
Engineers from SpaceX, Boeing and Inmarsat spent the last few weeks preparing a Falcon 9 rocket and the Inmarsat 5 F4 communications satellite for liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Since the satellite arrived at Cape Canaveral from its Boeing factory in Southern California last month, technicians filled it with 5,372 pounds (2,437 kilograms)…