SpaceX Blazes into the Night With Early-Hours EchoStar-23 Launch
SpaceX successfully scored "three-for-three" in the small hours of Thursday morning, delivering its third Upgraded Falcon 9 booster aloft in as many months in 2017. Following hard on the heels of its first Iridium NEXT launch in January and last month's flight of the CRS-10 Dragon to the International Space Station (ISS), the vehicle roared aloft at 2 a.m. EDT Thursday, following a slight delay, caused by concern about high upper-level winds. The launch was originally targeted for the small hours of Tuesday morning, but was scrubbed due to unacceptable weather conditions. Tonight's flight marked the first launch from historic Pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida in the hours of darkness since the twilight of the Space Shuttle era. Read more
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to launch the EchoStar 23 satellite from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida at 05:35 to 08:05 UT, 16th March 2017.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the EchoStar 23 satellite is scheduled to launch from the Kennedy Space Centre, Florida, at 05:04 to 07:34 GMT, 30th January 2017
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch the EchoStar 23 communications satellite for EchoStar Corp. EchoStar 23, based on a spare platform from the canceled CMBStar 1 satellite program, will provide direct-to-home television broadcast services over Brazil. Read more