SpaceX Starlink Mission Falcon 9 Launched Starlink Satellites On 3/18/2020
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SpaceX is targeting Wednesday, March 18 at 8:16 a.m. EDT, or 12:16 UTC, for its sixth launch of Starlink satellites. Falcon 9 lifted off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, with a backup opportunity on Thursday, March 19 at 7:56 a.m. EDT, or 11:56 UTC. Falcon 9’s first stage supported the Iridium-7 NEXT mission in July 2018, the SAOCOM 1A mission in October 2018, the Nusantara Satu mission in February 2019, and the second launch of Starlink in November 2019. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported the first launch of Starlink in May 2019. Approximately 45 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX’s fairing recovery vessels, “Ms. Tree” and “Ms. Chief,” will attempt to recover the two fairing halves, in the video “Starlink Mission“, below:
At 8:16am Eastern SpaceX launched booster B1048 for the 5th time today for the fifth OPERATIONAL Starlink communications satellite mission (sixth launch, since the first Starlink launch was just a test). After performing a perfect lift the booster missed landing on the ASDS drone ship. Despite the failure to land the booster the 60 Starlink Satellites were correctly deployed into orbit, in the video “SpaceX Launches Starlink-5“, below:
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched the sixth batch of 60 Starlink satellites (Starlink-6) from Launch Complex (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida, on 18 March 2020, at 12:16 UTC (08:16 EDT). Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage (Block 5 B1048) attempted to land on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. Falcon 9’s first stage for this mission previously launched the Iridium-7 NEXT mission in July 2018, the SAOCOM 1A mission in October 2018, the Nusantara Satu mission in February 2019, and the second launch of Starlink in November 2019. Falcon 9’s fairing previously supported the first launch of Starlink in May 2019, in the video “SpaceX Starlink 6 launch & Falcon 9 first stage attempted landing, 18 March 2020“, below:
In the video “Why SpaceX is Making Starlink“, below:
Since the start of the space age, more than 8,800 objects have been launched into orbit, according to estimates from the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs. But in a few years, that number could increase significantly. Private companies plan to launch thousands of satellites to beam internet to customers on Earth. SpaceX alone has announced plans to launch 42,000 satellites. If this happens, SpaceX will be responsible for about a fivefold increase in the number of spacecraft launched by all of humanity, in the video “Why SpaceX And Amazon Are Launching 42,000+ Satellites“, below:
Back in 2019, SpaceX’s Starlink division is on track to offer satellite-broadband service in the United States in mid-2020, the company’s president and chief operating officer Gwynne Shotwell said Oct. 22, 2019.
Getting there will require the company to launch six to eight batches of satellites, Shotwell told reporters during a media roundtable. SpaceX also has to finish the design and engineering of the user terminals, which is not a minor challenge, Shotwell acknowledged. SpaceX’s proposed Starlink constellation of thousands of satellites, which are designed to orbit at low altitudes above the Earth and beam internet coverage to the surface below. SpaceX CEO Elon Musk posted two tweets that show he’s testing the broadband service. Elon Musk has a Starlink terminal at his house and he used it to send a tweet early on Oct. 22, 2019.”Sending this tweet through space via Starlink satellite,” Elon Musk tweeted to his 29 million followers. Two minutes later, Musk sent a follow-up tweet that said, “Whoa, it worked!!” In this video Engineering Today will discuss SpaceX’s plan to provide internet coverage with Starlink constellation as soon as mid-2020, in the video “SpaceX Starlink Broadband Services in Mid-2020“, below:
The early SpaceX Starlink satellites lack inter-satellite links planned for later versions. Can they still provide low latency wide-area communications? In this video I look at what might be possible using ground relays to hop from satellite to satellite around the world, in the video “Using ground relays with Starlink“, below:
Today we are going to talk about the 60 Starlink satellites that SpaceX just launched in a groundbreaking mission. But more than that we are going to talk about why this mission is such a big deal. I mean they are just satellites right? Surely we already have plenty of satellites around our pale blue dot by now? Here is the thing though. SpaceX have just started an amazing long term mission. Not for any other launch provider, but for themselves. This amazing set of missions aims to create a super low latency telecommunications network. And how are they going to do this? Not by launching just these 60 satellites, which is amazing by itself, but by launching around 12,000 satellites in three sophisticated orbital shells around the world, in the video “How is SpaceX Starlink going to be revolutionary?” below:
A look at how SpaceX achieves their astonishing landing accuracy with the Falcon 9 rocket, in the video “How SpaceX Lands Rocketes with Astonishing Accuracy“, below:
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