Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX On Sunday (December 13) the P Fal Falcon 9 rockets were launched to return to Earth carrying a giant radio satellite into orbit of Sirius XM on its seventh trip to space.
Two phases Falcon 9 rocket At 12:30 p.m., an EDT (1730 GMT) blast from the Space Launch Complex 40 Hert Cape Canaveral Space Force Station marked the company’s 25th year of launch. It launched the SXM-7 next pay generation radio satellite into the orbit of the consumer Sirius XM.
About 9 minutes later, the first phase of the booster landed in the Atlantic Ocean, landing on the spaceX drone ship “Just Read the Instructions”, back to Earth. To wait for good weather conditions for both the launch and the booster landing, the launch came to a halt through the planned two-hour window (which was originally set at 11:22 a.m.). Representatives of SpaceX said via Twitter.
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The mission was originally planned to explode on Friday (December 11), less than 24 hours after the United Launch Alliance Delta IV Heavy Launched a huge spy satellite U.S. from a nearby pad. For the government.
The turnaround time between the two launches, marked as the shortest time between launches here at the Cape since the 1960s, would have been just over 15 hours. In September 1967, a Delta-G and an Atlas-Centaur fell from two different launch pads at 10 different speeds. Last August, the Falcon 9 and Atlas V rocket launched within 35 hours of each other, the first since May 1981.
But on Friday, SpaceX canceled the launch attempt After multiple delays in the planned flight window. During the final minutes of the countdown, SpaceX called a hold and eventually stood down from the effort, demonstrating the need for additional ground systems checkout. The delay proved fruitful as the P7th Falcon 9 rocket jumped off the pad on Sunday for its 7th mission.
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For this mission, the 230-foot (70 m) Falcon 9 successfully launched the high-powered radio broadcasting satellite Sirius XM-7 (SXM-7) into orbit. Created by Mercury Technologies for the Sirius XM, SpaceX is currently one of only two satellites to replace older groups in orbit.
The rocket’s first phase booster, now with seven launches and landings under its belt, went down on SpaceX’s “Just Read Instructions” drone ship, which was waiting in the Atlantic. It marks the 69th recovery of a first-stage booster for a California-based rocket manufacturer.
The rocket featured in Friday’s launch is another record-setting booster. Known as the B1051, this flight-proof booster began its seventh flight – the second in SpaceX’s fleet to do just that. First, B1049, Batch of 60 Starlink satellites In orbit on November 24, before touching on the company’s other drone ship, “Of course I still love you.”
To date, the B1051 has taken an uncrewed crew Dragon spacecraft to the International Space Station as part of its 2019 flight test, followed by three Earth-observation satellites for Canada as well as four different Starlink missions. For its 7th flight, it turns 15,432-lb. (7,000 kg) satellite is in orbit of Sirius XM. The satellite will release more than 8,000 watts of content for Sirius customers in the U.S., Canada and the Caribbean.
The SXM-7 satellite is based on Maxer Technologies’ SSL-1300 satellite bus. It is equipped with two large solar arrays as well as batteries for large non-orbit storage. The SXM-7 will operate in the S-band spectrum, between 2.32 GHz and 2.345 GHz and is part of a pair that is launching for the SpaceX Sirius XM.
SpaceX has been contracted to launch another satellite for the Sirius XM, called the SXM-8, which is set to launch next year. Each satellite has a working life of 15 years, and will replace two aging satellites already in orbit.
The launch of Sirius XM’s SXM-7 satellite is a busy weekend for Cape and SpaceX.
On December 6, SpaceX launched its first upgraded cargo dragon spacecraft from the Pad 39 at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. The self-propelled cargo ship arrived at the International Space Station in December and successfully landed at the space station for the first time. (Its previous repetition was equipped with an orbital outpost using the station’s robotic arm.)
Meanwhile, the company Launched a prototype of its Starship Mars rocket Wednesday (December 9) – In a test flight. The 164-foot tall (50m) prototype rocket flew at an altitude of 7.7 miles (12.5 km) and was the first prototype powered by SpaceX’s three methane-fueled Raptor engine. The stainless steel ship then sailed to the U.S. And demonstrated descent guided toward the landing pad at SpaceX’s testing facility in Boca Chika, Texas, located near the Mexican border.
As part of its test flight, the starship rocket performed a dramatic flip maneuver that adjusted itself to the landing, with the larger rocket floping the mid-air belly, sending it back to Earth. The rocket swam very hard, exploding into a dramatic fireball. Founder and CEO of the company, Elon Musk, Praising the teams as a devastating success, saying the teams got the data they needed.
Finally, Kasturi and SpaceX are building reusable starships as a means of transporting large amounts of cargo into space and transporting people to the moon, Mars and beyond.
To prepare for the flight, SpaceX tested the Veteran Booster on Monday evening (Dec December), then transported the rocket back to the hangar for mating with its payload.
This flight marks the first time that a paying customer will fly on such a P te rocket. Historically, SpaceX has reserved more than three flights under its belt for its own first stage booster. Starlink Mission. This could be a promising sign that companies are relying on the utility factor again and this is more comfortable than the tried and true booster.
It also marks the first time that SpaceX has flown a portion of the payload used by a paying customer. The company is making renewed efforts to include more rockets. On this particular mission, one of the pieces of the protective nose cone flew on the Anasis-2 flight this summer.
To facilitate this type of reuse, SpaceX has two boats equipped with a wide grid. These boats, which Mrs. Tree and G.S.S. Named the Chief, the fairies are able to catch the pieces as they fall back to Earth or out of the ocean and back to the port for reuse.
A few days before the unveiling, G.O. Ms. The tree was arranged in the recovery zone. The net-equipped ship is working alone for this mission as the G.O. Ms. The chief is still stationed at Port Canaveral.
Next for SpaceX is the launch of a classified satellite for the National Recognition Office fee. The mission is scheduled to take off from NASA’s historic Historic Pad 39 on Thursday, December 17 at the Kennedy Space Center.
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