Updated on January 7, 2021 at 7:03 pm
Hawthorne-based SpaceX launched its first rocket of the year Thursday, sending a Turkish broadcasting satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Turksat 5A satellite was scheduled for 5:28 p.m. California time.
Following the launch, SpaceX again landed the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on a barge, named Just Read the Instructions, floating in the Atlantic Ocean for use in future missions. The rocket used in the launch had already flown three previous missions.
Both halves of the rocket s fairing the nose cone that protects the satellite payload as it is carried into space have also been used in previous missions.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches a classified payload for the National Reconnaissance Office (NRO) on December 19, 2020, from Complex 39 at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. ( JOE MARINO/UPI/Shutterstock)
HAWTHORNE (CNS) - Hawthorne-based SpaceX will look to launch its first rocket of the year later Thursday, sending a Turkish broadcasting satellite into orbit from Cape Canaveral in Florida.
The launch of the Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Turksat 5A satellite is scheduled for 5:28 p.m. California time.
Following the launch, SpaceX will again attempt to land the first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket on a barge, named Just Read the Instructions, floating in the Atlantic Ocean for use in future missions. The rocket being used in the launch has already flown three previous missions.
First 7 Space Force direct enlistees graduate from basic training
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Basic military training trainees take the Oath of Enlistment during their graduation ceremony, Dec. 10 at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland, Texas. Photo by Sarayuth Pinthong/U.S. Air Force
Dec. 15 (UPI) The first seven people to enlist directly into the U.S. Space Force have graduated from basic military training at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
The five men and two women, who graduated Dec. 10, were among 414 recruits who completed seven and a half weeks of training, according to an Air Force announcement.
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Training began Oct. 20 following the recruits swearing-in at Fort George G. Meade Military Entrance Processing Station in Fort Meade, Md.
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From left to right: Amy Biggers, Virginia Beach, VA; Nathan Ramage ofFalcon, CO; Delvano Brown of Gaithersburg, MD; Shane Brown of Colorado Springs, CO; Giahna Brown of Woodbridge, VA; Elijah Engelby, Colorado Springs, CO; Benjamin Nevoraski of Virginia Beach, VA
The nearly one-year-old Space Force graduated its first seven enlistees on Thursday at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland. They graduated alongside more than 700 regular Airmen, reciting the Airman s creed and accepting their coins.
The Space Force boot camp was just shy of two months long, and used Air Force Military Training as its foundation. It also included an additional two dozen hours of space-specific curriculum to make it more relevant to the fledgling service’s needs.
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