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SpaceX Launches New Wave of NRO Reconnaissance Satellites

Spaceflight Now reports, “The National Reconnaissance Office flew its 13th mission supporting an intelligence-gathering constellation it calls the “proliferated architecture” on Monday night. As with the first dozen missions, this batch of satellites (of an undisclosed quantity) flew to orbit on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket. The mission, dubbed NROL-172, launched from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff happened at 7:13:50 p.m. PDT (10:13:50 p.m. EDT / 0213:50 UTC), nearly four hours after the opening of the window.”
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SpaceX Falcon 9 launches NROL-172 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. (Launch occurs at 30:26 mark)
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Falcon Heavy Returns to Flight with ViaSat-3 Mission

Space News reports, “A SpaceX Falcon Heavy launched the third and final terabit-class ViaSat-3 broadband satellite toward geostationary orbit April 29, putting Viasat on course to finish a constellation more than a decade in the making. The first flight of a Falcon Heavy in more than 18 months lifted off at 10:13 a.m. Eastern from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, with its two side boosters returning to nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station about eight minutes later for reuse.”
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Falcon Heavy launches from Kennedy Space Center, Florida, April 29, at 10:13 a.m. ET. (Launch occurs at the 25:11 mark)
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ULA Launches 29 Amazon LEO Satellites on Atlas V from Cape Canaveral

Spaceflight Now reports, “United Launch Alliance completed its second Atlas 5 rocket launch of the month, marking the company’s fastest turnaround at Space Launch Complex 41 to date. It beats the previous record by nearly three days.”
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ULA Atlas V launches from Cape Canaveral.
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SpaceX Launches Two Starlink Missions 19 Hours Apart

SPACE reports, “SpaceX began and ended the day with Starlink launches. The company sent two Falcon 9 rockets soaring, first from Florida before sunrise on Tuesday (April 14), and then from California after sunset the same day (by local time zone). Both launches were successful, according to SpaceX”
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SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on April 14. (Launch occurs at the 0:13 mark)
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Watch: SpaceX Launches Cygnus XL Cargo Ship to Resupply ISS Crew

SPACE reports, “A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket soared into a blue sky over Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:41 a.m. EDT (1141 GMT) on Saturday, sending Northrop Grumman’s ‘Cygnus XL’ resupply freighter toward the International Space Station (ISS).”
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SpaceX launches Cygnus XL cargo ship to ISS from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday at 7:41 a.m. EDT (Launch at the 00:12 mark)
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Falcon 9 Launches 119 Payloads into Orbit on Transporter-16 Mission

Via Satellite reports, “SpaceX launched 119 payloads into Low-Earth Orbit (LEO) at 4:02 a.m. PT on Transporter-16, a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission, from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday morning. The mission was the first stage booster’s 12thflight. It landed vertically on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean after releasing its payloads.”
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SpaceX launches 119 payloads on Transporter-16 mission. (Launch occurs at the 0:10 mark)
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SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites on Falcon 9 Rocket from Cape Canaveral

Spaceflight Now reports, “SpaceX sent a Falcon 9 rocket soaring from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station during a pre-dawn liftoff on Wednesday with a batch of Starlink internet satellites onboard. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at 5:52:20 a.m. EST (1052:20 UTC). The rocket flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the launch pad.”
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SpaceX Launches 29 Starlink Satellites (Launch occurs at the 1:00:10 mark)
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SpaceX Conducts Bicoastal Falcon 9 Launches, Deploys 54 Starlink Satellites

SPACE reports, “SpaceX marched into the new month with a pair of Starlink launches from opposite coasts.”  The first Falcon 9 launch took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 5:10 a.m. EST, resulting in the successful deployment of 25 Starlink satellites (Group 17-23). “Nearly 12 hours later, at 9:56 p.m. EST (0256 GMT March 2), another Falcon 9 carrying 29 Starlink satellites (Group 10-41) launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.”
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SpaceX launches 29 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral on Falcon 9 rocket. (Launch occurs at the 1:00:16 mark)
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SpaceX Pushes Reusability Record With 33rd Falcon 9 Flight

The Starlink 6-104 mission added another 28 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit. As Spaceflight Now reports, “Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 10:47 p.m. EST (0347 UTC). The Falcon 9 rocket flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.”
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. (Launch occurs at the 0:10 second mark)
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