321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (July 7)
SpaceX has plans to launch the first rocket between 5:03 p.m. and 8:15 p.m. on July 1 from NASA's Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A. This mission is known as MTG-S1, and is the European Space Agency's (ESA) Meteosat Third Generation Sounder satellite.
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Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the launch of the MTG-S1 weather satellite, which launched on time at 5:04 p.m. July 1 from Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.
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Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the Starlink 10-25 mission which launched 2:28 a.m. July 2 from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
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During the first six months of the year, an array of 56 orbital rockets took flight from Florida's Space Coast. This unpreceded pace will zoom beyond 2024's freshly established annual record of 93 launches — should the cadence continue through year's end.
Will a new launch record materialize at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center? Stay tuned.
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In another post-midnight launch, SpaceX is targeting Tuesday, June 8, for an early morning Falcon 9 rocket liftoff from Florida's Space Coast, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory indicates.
This Starlink 10-28 mission will lift another payload of broadband satellites on a northeasterly trajectory into low-Earth orbit. The 4½-hour launch window extends from 1:48 a.m. to 6:18 a.m.
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Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1
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