SpaceX gears up for big year with dozens of launches slated
SpaceX gearing up for big year
SpaceX is planning to launch two separate Starlink missions this week. It is the start of a very busy year for the Space Coast as SpaceX alone is hoping to get in nearly 50 orbital launches completed.
KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. - There have been some big wins for the space race as well as some failures, like the most recent SpaceX Starship prototype rocket test explosion in Texas.
One thing is for sure, this year, space has taken off. I think Florida and the Space Coast are going to get used to a lot more launches a lot more frequently, and that is a good thing, said Dale Ketcham, a Space Florida vice president.
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NASA’s Curiosity rover celebrates 3,000 Sols, or Martian days exploring the Red Planet in this self portrait mosaic stitched from left navigation camera raw images taken on Sol 3000, Jan. 12/13, 2021 and colorized – and is cropped from the wider panorama (below). Credit: NASA/JPL/Ken Kremer
The view from Mars on Sol 3,000 – simply spectacular !!! As she snapped a dramatic new self portrait backdropped by alien scenery from the Red Planet
NASA’s groundbreaking Curiosity rover is celebrating 3,000 Sols, or Martian days, of exploration on the Red Planet since she touched down on Mars on Aug. 6, 2012 inside Gale Crater with the goal of climbing Mount Sharp in search of sign of water and organic molecules and potential signs of past life.
SpaceX Starlink satellites target of requested environmental review
Competitor Viasat argues mega-constellation poses hazards in space and on Earth
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From the jump, astronomers raised concerns about what stargazers call “light pollution.”
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Critics also cite space debris.
“Those mega constellations could collide with other satellites in low-Earth orbit, like the International Space Station,” Dr. Ken Kremer of SpaceUpClose.com said.
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So now Viasat, another Internet provider, is requesting the Federal Communications Commission do an environmental review of Starlink arguing SpaceX is posing hazards in space and on Earth.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk responded by tweeting, “Starlink ‘poses a hazard’ to Viasat’s profits, more like it.”