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The Department of Defense is looking for a new home for SpaceX’s Starship, launching the process to determine what the environmental impact would be to allow the world’s most powerful rocket to launch from Florida's Space Coast. Led by the U.S. Air Force, which includes the Space Force, but working with NASA, the Federal Aviation Administration and the U.S. Coast Guard, what is officially called an Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) has the most rigorous requirements when weighing the detriments a project might have on its surroundings. The Air Force detailed its plans for the EIS on a new w...
Orlando Sentinel
NASA announced the four members for the planned August SpaceX mission to rotate crew on the International Space Station and it includes the first member of the U.S. Space Force flying to orbit. The crew member, which Space Force calls a guardian, has already been to space, but for NASA as a member of the Air Force. Piloting the SpaceX Crew-9 flight will be U.S. Space Force Col. Nick Hague, who previously had a scary initial ride the Air Force technically considered having reached space in 2018 that ended with an abort. It happened as he and a Russian crewmate cosmonaut Alexey Ovchinin aboard a...
Orlando Sentinel
SpaceX is set to send up another Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday night while prepping for a unique cargo launch from Cape Canaveral now targeting Tuesday. A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off at 6:15 p.m. Eastern from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on a southerly trajectory carrying another 23 satellites for the growing internet constellation. Backup launch options run through 9:55 p.m. and on Monday beginning at 5:39 p.m. The first-stage booster is making its 18th flight including Inspiration4 and Ax-1, and will make a recovery landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas. ...
Orlando Sentinel
Commercial astronaut trips from the Space Coast are becoming commonplace, with Axiom Space about to send up another crew from Kennedy Space Center this week. In what is slated to be the first of up to six human spaceflights from Florida this year, Ax-3 is contracting with SpaceX for a ride up to the International Space Station. The mission is set to send its four crew aboard the Crew Dragon Freedom atop a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A, targeting liftoff at 5:11 p.m. Wednesday. Flying to space for the sixth time and the second time as commander of an Axiom mission is former NASA as...
Orlando Sentinel
SpaceX is set to send up another Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday night. A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet Satellites is targeting a 7:27 p.m. liftoff from Canaveral’s Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, but has multiple launch opportunities through 11:25 p.m. The launch, which was delayed from a Saturday attempt, has a southerly trajectory so will be more visible down the Florida coast. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts 85% chance for good conditions, which declines to 20% in the event of a 24-hour delay. The first-stage booster is flying its 12th...
Orlando Sentinel
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER — SpaceX may not have had a moonbound rocket on the pad, but it did manage its second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon. United Launch Alliance, which is targeting the moon, was set to lift off with its first launch of the year about nine hours later. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites carved up the dying blue skies at sunset with a 5:35 p.m. Eastern liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40. The first-stage booster made its 16th flight, having previously flown on two crewed and two c...
Orlando Sentinel
SpaceX may not have a moonbound rocket on the pad, but it is aiming to send up its second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon. United Launch Alliance is set to lift off with its first about 10 hours later. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites is targeting a 4 p.m. Eastern liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a four-hour window with backup options on Monday beginning at 4:01 p.m. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts an 80% chance for good conditions during the initial window, but only...
Orlando Sentinel
Rough weather at sea caused the SpaceX Falcon 9 booster that had successfully landed a record 19 times to topple while getting a ride back to Florida. SpaceX announced late Monday that the booster, which first flew on the historic Demo-2 mission in 2020 that took NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley into space, and still displays the NASA “worm” logo on its side, had made its final flight. “During transport back to Port early this morning, the booster tipped over on the droneship due to high winds and waves. Newer Falcon boosters have upgraded landing legs with the capability to self-le...
Orlando Sentinel
ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX sent up another Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral early Saturday with a first-stage booster flying for a record 19th time. The Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 6-32 mission with 23 Starlink satellites launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at 12:33 a.m. This marked a record 19th flight for the first-stage booster having flown previously on Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-11, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3 and 13 Starlink missions. It made another recovery landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions downrange in the Atlantic. It was the 255th booster recovery ever amon...
Orlando Sentinel
Space Perspective, the new space travel company, is building so-called “space balloons” to carry eight people at a time to a 19-mile-high for $125,000. The program will let the passenger experience the outer space views. Tickets went on sale starting on June 23. So far, the first three trips that were scheduled for takeoff in 2024 are all sold out. The company’s co-founders, Jane Poynter and Taber MacCallum, have been the advisers for the giant space projects from the companies like Space X, for which they worked closely with its founder Elon Musk and Google. The pair have come up with the ide...
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