Tag: May 21

Brand-New SpaceX Falcon 9 Launches 23 Starlink Satellites to Orbit

SPACE reports that SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites late Tuesday night, atop a Falcon 9 rocket that was flying for the first time. Launch took place “from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station Tuesday (May 20) at 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 GMT on May 21), carrying 23 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).”
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SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on new Falcon 9 rocket
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Axiom Space’s Private Astronaut Mission Edges Closer to Liftoff

Aviation Week reports that preparations for Axiom Space’s “second four-person private astronaut mission to the International Space Station (ISS) cleared its May 15 flight readiness review and remains on track for a liftoff early next week from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.” The launch is currently scheduled for Sunday evening at 5:37 p.m. EST.
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