Tag: Three Launches

SpaceX Sets Record Launch Pace with Three Falcon 9 Launches in Two Days

Florida Today reports SpaceX successfully launched three separate Falcon 9 missions in less than 48 hours, starting Friday and wrapping up early Sunday morning.  The “launch-packed weekend got started with a Friday liftoff of Starlink satellites from Kennedy Space Center,” with 53 additional satellites placed into orbit.  A Falcon 9 launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Saturday at 7:19 a.m. PT, “with a German defense satellite labeled SARah-1.”  At 12:27 a.m. ET Sunday, a Falcon 9 “bolted off the pad at Launch Complex 40” at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, delivering to orbit a “Globalstar FM15, a communications satellite for Louisiana-based Globalstar.”  All three launches included successful booster landings.  The article notes that “SpaceX said the accomplishment was a record for the company that has flown 160 Falcon 9 missions to date.”
Full Story (Florida Today)
 
 

 

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Starlink Mission, June 17, 2022
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SARah-1 Mission, June 18, 2022
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Globalstar FM15 Mission, June 19, 2022
(SpaceX via YouTube)

SpaceX to Make Three Launches this Weekend

Spaceflight Now reports that SpaceX “teams in Florida and California are preparing for three missions from three launch pads in three days, beginning Friday with a launch from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida with a reusable Falcon 9 booster flying for a record 13th time.” Friday’s flight will “deploy 53 more Starlink internet satellites, followed by a launch Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base with a German military radar observation satellite, then another mission from Cape Canaveral early Sunday with a commercial Globalstar messaging and data relay spacecraft.” The rapid-fire launch schedule “would mark the fastest sequence of flights by SpaceX since the company’s founding.”
Full Story (Spaceflight Now)