Falcon 9 on the launch pad ahead of the June 30 Transporter-2 mission. Photo: SpaceX
SpaceX conducted the second mission in its dedicated service on Wednesday afternoon, carrying 88 spacecraft to Low-Earth Orbit (LEO).
The Falcon 9 rocket took off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force station in Florida at 3:31 p.m. After stage separation, the booster was recovered for the eighth time. This booster was recovered on land, the first time SpaceX has recovered a booster on land this year.
This mission marked SpaceX’s second launch to polar orbit from Florida. The satellites began to deploy over a series of deployments about an hour into the mission. Deployment sequences ended about 1 hour and 30 minutes into the mission when three Starlink satellites on board were deployed.
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AUBURN, Wash. — A pair of space tugs are beginning their journey from Spaceflight Inc.’s clean room, south of Seattle, to low Earth orbit. Along the way, the Sherpa orbital transportation vehicles and their 36 ride-along spacecraft will be loaded up on a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket and fired off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida as early as this month. Spaceflight’s Sherpa vehicles are pioneering a relatively recent innovation in the satellite launch industry. Such space tugs can go
A pair of space tugs have begun their journey from Spaceflight Inc.’s HQ, south of Seattle, to low Earth orbit. Get an inside look at the company’s clean room.
RBC Signals acquires communication service capacity from the operators of ground stations around the world, including C-CORE’s facility in Inuvik in the Canadian Arctic. (Photo via RBC Signals)
Redmond, Wash.-based RBC Signals says it’s closed on a $1.2 million funding round that’s meant to put the venture in position to meet the growing demand for satellite ground station services.
“One of the primary things we’re doing is positioning ourselves for the future,” RBC Signals’ founder and CEO, Christopher Richins, told GeekWire today. “We already see an uptick in demand.”
Richins said the newly reported equity round, which he characterized as a “late seed round,” brings the six-year-old startup’s total investment to $3.2 million. A filing with the Securities and Exchange Commission says 15 investors took part in the round.