Tag: February 27

SpaceX Successfully Launches New Starlink Mini Satellites

UPI reports that SpaceX launched 21 “V2 Mini” satellites to add to their Starlink Internet constellation from Cape Canaveral on Monday evening. SpaceX announced “Liftoff!” in a tweet at 6:16 p.m. EST, “showing the Falcon 9 rocket lift off from pad 40 against the sunset.” The launch “was delayed earlier Monday to allow radiation levels to drop following a solar storm.” Starlink’s new satellite design, called “V2 Mini,” holds “four times the communications capacity of early generations of Starlink satellites, known as Version 1.5,” SpaceX said.
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On Monday, February 27, at 6:13 p.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 21 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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NASA Plans to Launch PUNCH Mission February 27

SPACE reports, “On Feb. 27, aboard a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, NASA plans to launch the sun-studying PUNCH mission to low Earth orbit. It will ride alongside the agency’s SPHEREx observatory, which is sort of like a wide-angle version of the James Webb Space Telescope, as part of the agency’s Launch Services Program that works to make space missions more cost efficient.”
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