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SpaceX Launches 60 Satellites for New Global Internet Service
SpaceX has lifted off an initial wave of 60 small satellites that would provide internet connectivity for customers worldwide, Reuters reported Friday. The 500-pound satellites will beam signals as part of the Starlink constellation for the internet service of the same name. A Falcon 9 rocket lifted the satellites Friday from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station to orbit.
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Executive Spotlight: Interview With Matt Desch, CEO of Iridium
ExecutiveBiz talked with Matt Desch, chief executive officer, and a four-time Wash100 winner, about Iridium’s May 22nd satellite launch, their partnership with SpaceX and where he sees the company’s path ahead. “Over the years, we’ve gone public and renewed ourselves to the point that we’re not just surviving anymore; we’re thriving.†ExecutiveBiz: You’ve been chief […] More
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HPE Sends Supercomputer to ISS as Part of SpaceX’s 12th Cargo Resupply Mission
A Hewlett Packard Enterprise-built supercomputer took off aboard a SpaceX’s Dragon spacecraft Monday at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida. The spacecraft launched on a Falcon 9 rocket as part of SpaceX’s 12th Commercial Resupply Services mission to the International Space Station. The Spaceborne Computer is part of a one-year experiment that HPE will conduct with NASA to […] More
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Gwynne Shotwell: SpaceX Plans to Launch Rocket Every 2 to 3 Weeks
SpaceX President Gwynne Shotwell has said the company plans a two- to three-week interval for its Falcon 9 rocket launches once a new launch pad at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida enters service next week, Reuters reported Tuesday. Shotwell told Reuters Monday in an interview that launch pad repairs at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station […] More
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Iridium Sets Satellite Constellation NEXT Launch Date for Dec. 16; Matt Desch Comments
Iridium Communications has scheduled the launch of its next-generation global satellite constellation Iridium NEXT for Dec. 16 aboard SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California. SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will carry 10 Iridium NEXT satellites to low-Earth orbit to replace an existing commercial satellite network in space, Iridium said Thursday. The planned launch announcement follows […] More
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Reports: ULA Submits Proposal for 3rd Air Force GPS III Satellite Launch Contract
United Launch Alliance has submitted a bid to compete on a contract to launch the U.S. Air Force’s third GPS III satellite in 2019 and reiterated its concern about price as a deciding factor in contract competition, Florida Today reported Tuesday. “As recent launch failures have shown, rockets are not commodities,†the Boeing–Lockheed Martin joint venture […] More
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SpaceX Falcon 9 Rocket Explodes Prior to Static Fire Test
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket exploded at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida prior to the rocket’s static fire test, Space News reported Thursday. Brian Berger and Jeff Foust write the explosion early Thursday destroyed the rocket’s communications satellite payload Amos-6, built as part of Facebook’s plan to beam Internet access to remote areas in […] More
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Space X’s Falcon 9 Rocket Launches Japanese Comms Satellite
SpaceX has launched a Space Systems Loral-built communications satellite for Japanese company SKY Perfect JSAT into orbit aboard a Falcon 9 rocket. The U.S. Air Force‘s 45th Space Wing supported the JCSAT-16 payload launch Sunday from the Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral AF Station in Florida, the service branch said Monday. JCSAT-16 is designed to serve as a […] More
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NASA Awards 2nd ISS Crew Mission Task Order to SpaceX; Gwynne Shotwell, Julie Robinson Comment
SpaceX has received its second task order from NASA to transport astronauts to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Crew Transportation Capability contract worth approximately $2.6 billion. The task order was awarded after the company completed internal design evaluation and interim developmental milestones for its Crew Dragon space vehicle, Falcon 9 rocket and related ground systems, NASA said […] More
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NASA Launches 9th SpaceX ISS Resupply Mission Aboard Dragon Spacecraft
NASA has launched SpaceX‘s ninth commercial resupply mission to the International Space Station as part of the company’s Commercial Resupply Services contract with the space agency. NASA said Monday the CRS-9 mission carries 5,000 pounds of cargo, which will reach the space station on Wednesday. The space agency added the cargo contains samples and instruments that will […] More