Launch recap: NASA IMAP and more launch on SpaceX rocket from Florida Wednesday morning
Launch recap: Scroll down to read live updates from the NASA IMAP mission, which launched at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 24. from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.
SpaceX, ULA to launch back-to-back rockets Thursday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Back-to-back rockets carrying communications satellites for competing constellations Starlink and Project Kuiper are scheduled to launch within a roughly four-hour span Thursday, Sept. 25, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
First, Elon Musk’s SpaceX will send up a Falcon 9 rocket packed with 28 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40. That launch window opens at 4:36 a.m. and extends until 8:36 a.m. A target launch time has not yet been announced.
Sunrise SpaceX launch from Kennedy Space Center sends NASA IMAP mission off to L1
As the sun rose over Florida’s Space Coast Wednesday, three science spacecraft aimed at observing the sun’s influence on space weather took off on a journey that will take them one million miles from Earth.
NASA’s IMAP mission — alongside NASA’s Carruthers Geocorona Observatory and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s SWFO-L1— launched atop a single SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket at 7:30 a.m. Sept. 24 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center Pad 39A.
Amazon adds JetBlue as Project Kuiper customer. Who else will use the satellite internet?
Amazon has barely deployed 100 of its more-than 3,200 internet-beaming satellites, and already it’s added a major airline as a Project Kuiper customer.
The company founded by billionaire Jeff Bezos has announced that JetBlue Airways is the first airline with plans to eventually bring Amazon’s satellite internet network to its passengers. The news comes as Amazon gears up for its fifth-overall mission since late-April to deliver a batch of its satellites into low-Earth orbit — its first Project Kuiper mission in more than a month.
Scientists propose plan to nuke asteroid to eliminate threat to moon | Space Beat
A group of scientists including some NASA researchers have proposed a plan to send nuclear explosives to destroy asteroid 2024 YR4. Space Beat host Rob Landers and space trends reporter Eric Lagatta discuss the plan and potential issues on this week’s episode of our YouTube exclusive show. The asteroid poses a 4 percent chance of hitting the moon in 2032.
Also, learn more about the baby black hole that got a cosmic “kick” from its host galaxy and find out about some of the more than 6,000 exoplanets discovered over the past 30 years.
Live updates from SpaceX-ULA rocket launch morning doubleheader at Cape Canaveral, Florida
Launch doubleheader recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Thursday, Sept. 25, back-to-back morning liftoffs of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a ULA Atlas V rocket from Cape Canaveral.
Photo galleries show beauty of SpaceX-ULA launch doubleheader from Cape Canaveral, Florida
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and a United Launch Alliance rocket lifted off within a 3½-hour span Thursday, Sept. 25, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Blue Origin to expand in Titusville with light manufacturing facility employing 100 workers
Blue Origin plans to expand in Titusville by developing a light-manufacturing facility near Space Coast Regional Airport — and the company’s months-delayed second New Glenn rocket may launch by late October.
The Titusville manufacturing facility is slated to occupy the former Eckler’s warehouse, distribution and trucking hub off the west side of Grissom Parkway. This 180,000-square-foot building, which lies just southwest of Space Coast Regional Airport, housed the company’s classic-car parts and accessories operations.
Blue Origin gives media rare tour of New Glenn heavy-lift rocket factory on Merritt Island
Walking the floor of Blue Origin’s futuristic rocket factory on Merritt Island, visitors are dwarfed by huge metallic cylindrical components of 320-foot-tall New Glenn heavy-lift rockets.
Scissor lifts, scaffolding, heavy-duty wheeled equipment and toolboxes are stationed across this sprawling 750,000-square-foot manufacturing complex. Silver signs overhead identify work areas like the precision fusion weld shop, fluid components test lab, composites hub and an airlock.
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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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