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Rocket debris lights up skies over the Pacific Northwest
Read full article: Rocket debris lights up skies over the Pacific NorthwestIn this image taken from video provided by Roman Puzhlyakov, debris from a SpaceX rocket lights up the sky behind clouds over Vancouver, Wash. Thursday evening, March 25, 2021. The remnants of the second stage of the Falcon 9 rocket left comet-like trails as they burned up upon re-entry in the Earth's atmosphere according to a tweet from the National Weather Service. SEATTLE – Burning debris from a rocket lit up Pacific Northwest skies Thursday night, the National Weather Service in Seattle said. The rocket delivered Starlink satellites, built in Redmond, Washington, into orbit earlier this week, the Times reported. SpaceX said Wednesday that the Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth and landed as planned on its ocean-going barge off the coast of Florida.
WATCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch satellites in rideshare flight
Read full article: WATCH: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket to launch satellites in rideshare flightSpaceX is launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday morning. Liftoff was slated for 9:00 a.m from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. You can watch the live event below:Sunday’s launch is a part of its Transporter 1 mission, which will carry microsatellites and nanosatellites for various private customers and government entities, including NASA and the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, or DARPA. The rideshare flight will also carry more of its own Starlink satellites, after 60 Starlink satellites were launched earlier this week, according to Click Orlando, KSAT’s sister station in Orlando.
Europe, US 'climate guardian' satellite to monitor oceans
Read full article: Europe, US 'climate guardian' satellite to monitor oceansIn this Nov. 3, 2020 photo, provide by the European Space Agency, the Sentinel-6 satellite is placed inside the upper stage of a Falcon 9 rocket. The joint European-U.S. satellite mission to improve measurements of sea level rise is being launched from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California on Saturday Nov. 22, 2020. The new satellite, called Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, contains cutting-edge instruments able to capture sea level height with unprecedented accuracy, adding to space-based measurements going back almost 30 years. “We owe him a lot and he more than deserves to have this satellite named after him,” said Aschbacher. It’s the first time that another space agency has been involved in ESA’s flagship Copernicus mission, which already has seven satellites in orbit measuring the seas, atmosphere and land.
SpaceX postpones Starlink satellite mission again, this time due to tech issues
Read full article: SpaceX postpones Starlink satellite mission again, this time due to tech issuesKENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Update (8:24 a.m.): SpaceX called off its Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites on Thursday morning due to technical issues. SpaceX cited “an out of family ground system sensor reading” as the reasoning to halt the launch. Original: SpaceX will hold its next Falcon 9 launch of 60 Starlink satellites on Thursday morning. Liftoff is slated for 8:17 a.m. from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. According to SpaceX, the satellites will deploy a little more than an hour after liftoff.
Pictures of a ‘glowing cloud’ following SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch will leave you in awe
Read full article: Pictures of a ‘glowing cloud’ following SpaceX’s Falcon 9 launch will leave you in aweWe’ve seen a couple of pretty cool things lately when it comes to rocket launches, but the view of Falcon 9 taking off just before daybreak Saturday has got to be at the top of the list. In case you missed it, the rocket launched 58 Starlink communication satellites, bringing SpaceX one step closer to reaching its goal of providing global internet coverage from space. Falcon 9 launches 58 Starlink satellites and 3 @planetlabs Skysats to orbit before returning to Earth and landing on a droneship pic.twitter.com/K6OjgJQZfv — SpaceX (@SpaceX) June 13, 2020WOAH! A #SpaceX #Starlink launch into astronomical twilight is the absolute BEST WAY to start your day. pic.twitter.com/Mqr6NWNDhu — Jamie Groh (@AlteredJamie) June 13, 2020Full Screen 1 / 4 Viewers capture spectacular images during the SpaceX Falcon 9 launch early Saturday morning.