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Follow him on Twitter (opens in new tab). The launch has been called off for the day, less than 20 minutes before scheduled liftoff from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida, due to inclement weather. Mike Wall is the author of " Out There (opens in new tab) " (Grand Central Publishing, 2018 illustrated by Karl Tate), a book about the search for alien life. History was set to be made today as NASA and SpaceX geared up to launch Americans into space from American soil and on American equipment for the first time in nearly a decade. EDT (1630 GMT) on June 17 with news of successful liftoff, rocket landing and satellite deployment. The company has already launched 24 missions in 2022, 15 of them dedicated Starlink flights.Įditor's note: This story was updated at 12:30 p.m. The Crew Dragon will take off from NASA’s Kennedy. This intense 36-hour stretch will continue a very busy year for SpaceX. Watch live coverage of the SpaceX Crew-1 launch as four astronauts head to the International Space Station. The pad in question is next to Pad 39A, which is the only facility approved to launch crewed missions by SpaceX to the ISS. Today's mission kicked off a planned rocket tripleheader for SpaceX, which also intends to launch a radar satellite for the German military on Saturday morning (June 18) and a commercial communications satellite early Sunday (June 19). NASA says it won’t allow launches of the massive rocket from SpaceX’s pad at Cape Canaveral because it could endanger launches to the International Space Station. The company has now launched more than 2,700 Starlink craft to orbit (opens in new tab), and the number will continue to increase far into the future the next-generation version of the network could eventually consist of up to 30,000 satellites (opens in new tab). Starlink is SpaceX's constellation of internet satellites.
SpaceX's Starlink broadband satellites could be used for GPS navigation SpaceX launches 53 Starlink satellites, lands rocket in quickest booster turnaround to date SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals arrive in Ukraine The SpaceX-built launch vehicle, consisting of a Crew Dragon capsule and a two-stage Falcon 9 rocket, blasted off from NASAs Kennedy Space Center in Florida at about 9 p.m.