SPACE reports that at 3:11 p.m. EDT Wednesday, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station as part of the Transporter-2 mission. Atop the rocket “was a stack of 88 small satellites – 85 for commercial and government customers and three of SpaceX’s own Starlink internet satellites.”
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SpaceX Scrubs Launch of Transporter-2 Mission Tuesday after Airspace Violation
Space News reports that on Tuesday, the launch of SpaceX’s Transporter-2 mission atop a Falcon 9 rocket was delayed “in the final seconds of its countdown when an aircraft violated restricted airspace.” The mission, which will carry 88 satellites for several customers, was scheduled to launch at 2:56 p.m. EDT. However, “the countdown was stopped 11 seconds before liftoff because of a ‘fouled range,’ or range violation of some kind.” Although SpaceX “had nearly a one-hour launch window for this mission, the company scrubbed the launch minutes later because it would not have time to prepare the vehicle for another launch attempt.” The launch “has been tentatively rescheduled for the same time June 30.”
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SpaceX Scheduled to Launch Transporter-2 Mission Friday
Space News reports that five satellites from the US Space Development Agency (SDA) will launch as part of SpaceX’s Transporter-2 rideshare mission Friday. Transporter-2 “is expected to carry as many as 88 small satellites from commercial and government customers to a sun synchronous polar orbit. SDA’s five payloads include two pairs of satellites to demonstrate laser communications links, and one to demonstrate how data can be processed and analyzed autonomously aboard a satellite.”
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