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SpaceX's launch rate is getting attention. At this rate they could launch over 20 times this year, while using up to 6 Flight Provenâ„¢ first stages.
~2 weeks after this launch will be the CRS-11 ISS resupply mission using a Flight Provenâ„¢ Cargo Dragon spacecraft, the former CRS-4 airframe, then ~2 weeks after that is BulgariaSat-1 on another Flight Provenâ„¢ first stage.
Launcher: Falcon 9 Expendable
Launch site: KSC LC-39A
Launch Date: Monday, May 15
Launch Window: 1920-2020 Eastern (2320 GMT)
Stage Landing: no (big satellite, insufficient reserves)
Satellite Bus: BSS-702HP
Beams: 89 Ka-band
Propulsion: 4x Hall effect thrusters (ion propulsion)
Reaction mass: Xenon
Power: 15 kW
Satellite Mass: 6,070 kg
Static Fire still
~2 weeks after this launch will be the CRS-11 ISS resupply mission using a Flight Provenâ„¢ Cargo Dragon spacecraft, the former CRS-4 airframe, then ~2 weeks after that is BulgariaSat-1 on another Flight Provenâ„¢ first stage.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, FL – SpaceX is all set to continue their absolutely torrid launch pace in 2017 with a commercial High-Speed broadband satellite for Inmarsat on May 15 following Thursday’s successful completion of a critical static hot-fire test of the first stage. Watch our video below.
The static fire test of all 9 Merlin 1 D first stage engines comes just 10 days after the last successful SpaceX Falcon 9 liftoff of the super secret NROL-76 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO – as I reported here.
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Blastoff of the Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 communications satellite for commercial broadband provider Inmarsat is slated for Monday evening, May 15 at 7:20 p.m. EDT (2320 GMT) from SpaceX’s seaside Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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The static fire test of all 9 Merlin 1 D first stage engines comes just 10 days after the last successful SpaceX Falcon 9 liftoff of the super secret NROL-76 payload for the National Reconnaissance Office, or NRO – as I reported here.
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Blastoff of the Inmarsat-5 Flight 4 communications satellite for commercial broadband provider Inmarsat is slated for Monday evening, May 15 at 7:20 p.m. EDT (2320 GMT) from SpaceX’s seaside Launch Complex 39A on NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
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Launch site: KSC LC-39A
Launch Date: Monday, May 15
Launch Window: 1920-2020 Eastern (2320 GMT)
Stage Landing: no (big satellite, insufficient reserves)
Satellite Bus: BSS-702HP
Beams: 89 Ka-band
Propulsion: 4x Hall effect thrusters (ion propulsion)
Reaction mass: Xenon
Power: 15 kW
Satellite Mass: 6,070 kg
Static Fire still
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