Tag: EchoStar
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Live coverage: SpaceX delivers joint SES/EchoStar satellite to orbit
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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SpaceX delays Falcon 9 launch of TV broadcast satellite
Story updated at 1 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT) with SpaceX statement. File photo of a Falcon 9 rocket at pad 39A before a launch earlier this year. Credit: SpaceX Liftoff of a previously-flown Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center with a European-built television broadcast satellite has been pushed back from Saturday until at…
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Previously-flown Falcon 9 booster test-fired for weekend launch
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket is test-fired Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX test-fired a reused Falcon 9 booster Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, checking the rocket’s readiness for a planned liftoff Saturday with an Airbus-built commercial communications satellite. The two-stage rocket, featuring a previously-flown first stage booster,…
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Live coverage: Falcon 9 rocket test-fired in Florida
Live coverage of SpaceX’s preparations for the next Falcon 9 rocket launch from pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The mission will launch the SES 11/EchoStar 105 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below. Follow us on Twitter.
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SpaceX sets target launch dates for back-to-back flights next month
File photo inside SpaceX’s hangar at pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Credit: SpaceX SpaceX engineers are readying two Falcon 9 rockets for launches Oct. 7 and Oct. 9 from Florida and California, setting up another quick turnaround to first deploy a large TV broadcasting satellite for SES and EchoStar over the…
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SES agrees to launch another satellite on previously-flown Falcon 9 booster
A Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage booster lands at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station on Feb. 19 following a launch from nearby Kennedy Space Center with a space station cargo ship. Credit: SpaceX Six months after sending one of its communications satellites to orbit on the first re-flight of a SpaceX rocket, SES intends to…
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Photos: Russian Proton rocket blasts off with EchoStar 21
Look back on last week’s launch of a Russian Proton rocket from Kazakhstan with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite, a commercial craft designed to beam broadband connectivity to customers across Europe. The 191-foot-tall (58-meter) rocket took off at 0345 GMT on June 8 (11:45 p.m. EDT on June 7) from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan,…
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Video: Proton rocket returns to service with launch of EchoStar 21
Video credit: Roscosmos/TsENKI A Proton rocket launched from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite Thursday, the heaviest commercial payload ever flown aboard a Russian booster. The launcher lifted off from Pad 24 at Complex 81 at the historic spaceport at 0345:47 GMT Thursday (11:45:47 p.m. EDT Wednesday) to begin a…
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Proton rocket successfully returns to flight after year-long grounding
A Proton rocket lifts off Thursday from the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite. Credit: Khrunichev An EchoStar communications satellite designed to link Europeans with voice and broadband data services rode into orbit on top of a Russian Proton rocket Thursday, deploying into an on-target orbit after nine hours of maneuvers…
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Live coverage: Proton rocket blasts off for first time in a year
Live coverage of the countdown and launch of a Proton rocket with the EchoStar 21 communications satellite. Text updates will appear automatically below; there is no need to reload the page. Follow us on Twitter. Live video from ILS begins at approximately 0315 GMT (11:15 p.m. EDT).