We're heading into a quiet week for rocket launches but some long-delayed missions could finally get the break they need and get into orbit. One of the missions will see Virgin Orbit do an air launch.
There are several launches planned for this week including a Falcon 9 which will be helping a Dragon capsule into orbit so that it can deliver cargo to the International space station.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires off pad 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on April 23 with four astronauts aboard a Crew Dragon spacecraft. Credit: SpaceX
More than three-quarters of the launches from Florida’s Space Coast so far this year have deployed SpaceX’s Starlink internet satellites, but the focus will shift to other customers in June. Five rocket flights are scheduled to lift off from the spaceport next month for the U.S. Space Force, NASA, and commercial companies.
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A nearly 200-foot Atlas V rocket soared from its Florida pad on Tuesday, taking the Space Force s newest satellite designed to detect ballistic missile launches back on Earth.
Powered by one main engine and two strap-on solid rocket boosters, the United Launch Alliance rocket vaulted off Cape Canaveral Space Force Station s Launch Complex 41 at 1:37 p.m., just six minutes after the window opened. ULA teams used the extra few minutes to resolve a minor issue with propellant loading systems.