SpaceX, Blue Origin, ULA, Arianespace Plan Rocket Launches Tuesday Written 18 December 2018

Bloomberg News reports that the “stars are aligning for Tuesday to be quite the bookend to a transformational year for commercial space exploration” as SpaceX, Blue Origin, Arianespace, and United Launch Alliance (ULA) plan rocket launches Tuesday. Pending any delays, Tuesday “will be the first time so many rockets will fly on a single day.” SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket at 9:11 a.m. EST from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, while Blue Origin “expects its New Shepard rocket to lift off about 19 minutes later.” Arianespace plans to launch a Russian Soyuz rocket “from Europe’s spaceport in French Guiana” around 11:37 a.m. EST, while ULA “has scheduled its Delta Heavy rocket to lift off from Vandenberg Air Force Base on California’s central coast at 8:57 p.m. EST.”
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