Update for 1:30 pm and ET: SpaceX has canceled today’s launch attempt for the Sirius XM SXM-7 satellite. The next launch is chance Sunday, December 13, 7:13 a.m. EST (1213 GMT).
Cape Canaveral, Fla. SpaceX Its workhorse Falcon 9 carries a satellite into space for the Sirius XM and you can watch the action live online online, as it prepares to launch its 25th rocket of the year today.
One to two phases Falcon 9 rocket Flight is scheduled to depart from the Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station here in Florida. The lift off is expected during a two-hour window that opens at 11:21 a.m. EST (1621 GMT).
At the top of the 230-foot-tall (70m) launch is a high-powered satellite, the Sirius XM-7 (SXM-7), built using Maxxer techniques. It is one of two satellites to be launched by SpaceX as part of an effort to replace the old Sirius XM satellites currently in orbit.
You can Watch the projection action live here And on the Space.com homepage, courtesy of SpaceX or you can Watch here directly from SpaceX 15 minutes before lift.
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SpaceX has already had a banner year as a private spaceflight company has now launched two separate astronaut missions to the International Space Station in the last six months, marking the first time a commercial company has done so.
The company is also celebrating its busiest launching year, with a record 24 flights and yet more launches to come. The flight will mark SpaceX’s 25th release in 2020, breaking the previous record of 18 sets in 2018.
Following the liftoff on Friday, the first phase of the rocket is expected to land on SpaceX’s drone ship “Just Read Instructions” waiting in the Atlantic. If successful, it would mark the 69th recovery of a first-stage booster for a California-based rocket manufacturer.
The rocket featured in Friday’s launch will be the second record-setting booster. Known as the B1051, this flight-proof booster will go ahead of its seventh flight – the second in SpaceX’s fleet to do so. First, B1049, Batch of 60 Starlink satellites In orbit on November 24, before touching on the company’s other drone ship, “Cf course I still love,”.
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 a trio of Earth-observation satellites for Canada and four separate Starlink missions in 2020. For this 7th flight, it will carry 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 weather on Friday is 80% for the opening chance, while only cumulus clouds of atmosphere are likely at the launch site. Saturday is the time of the backup launch if needed. However, the launch depends on whether the ULA’s Delta IV Heavy is descending from the ground, as planned on Thursday.
If all goes according to plan, he will make this second unveiling in two days at the Cape and the third from Florida this week. On Sunday (December 6), SpaceX a Advanced cargo dragon spacecraft For NASA, 6,400 kg. (2,902 kg) supplies research and the International Space Station.
The launch will also mark the 30th rocket to explode from Florida’s space coast this year.
It is a payload, SXM-7 satellite based Mixer 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. The other, the SXM-8, is set to launch next year. Each satellite has a working life of 15 years, and will replace two aging satellites already in orbit.
SpaceX is expected to continue its tradition of recovering the Falcon 9’s payload fairing or nose cone on Sunday’s flight. The company has two boats equipped with a net – called GO Ms. Tree and GO Ms. The chief is called – That he uses fairings to snag Because they split the earth in two.
Each piece of hardware, such as a clamshell, valued at about a million dollars, is equipped with software that finds it in the recovery area, and a parachute system that lets them swim gently in the ocean or Mrs. Tree’s elaborate lattice and chief.
Boats are also capable of taking ferries out of the water as it is difficult to make a medium catch and depends on some factors such as weather and wind. For this mission, G.O. Ms. The tree will be on its own because Ms. The main port is parked in Canaveral.
This mission also marks the first time that the ferries used on the SpaceXN-Starlink mission have been blown up. Part of the vehicle’s defensive ground flew as part of the Anasis-2 mission Who launched a communications satellite for the South Korean military In July.
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