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Four years ago today, Falcon 9 landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship for the first time. Additional Falcon landings footage → youtube.com/playlist?list=…
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Static fire test of Falcon 9 complete—targeting Thursday, April 23 at 3:16 p.m. EDT, 19:16 UTC, for launch of 60 Starlink satellites from LC-39A in Florida
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The first stage rocket booster supporting this mission previously supported Crew Dragon’s first flight to the @Space_Station, launch of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, and the fourth Starlink mission
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The fairing previously supported launch of the AMOS-17 mission in August 2019
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With a more favorable weather forecast for launch and landing, now targeting Wednesday, April 22 at 3:37 p.m. EDT for this week’s Falcon 9 Starlink mission
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New T-0 of 3:30 p.m. EDT, 19:30 UTC, for today’s launch of Starlink
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T-30 minutes until Falcon 9 launch of Starlink. Webcast will go live ~10 minutes before liftoff → spacex.com/webcast
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Watch Falcon 9 launch 60 Starlink satellites → spacex.com/webcast twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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Starlink will deliver high speed broadband internet to locations where access has been unreliable, expensive, or completely unavailable
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship!
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Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
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Falcon 9 launches 60 Starlink satellites to orbit, completing this booster's fourth flight
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The McGregor team also completed a static fire test earlier this week of Falcon 9’s second stage engine for the Crew-1 mission, which will propel Crew Dragon toward the @Space_Station once the first stage separates and reorients to land back on Earth
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Falcon 9’s second stage engine at our Hawthorne headquarters before shipping to Texas – it is the 100th second stage engine SpaceX has built
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SpaceX has been selected to develop a lunar optimized Starship to transport crew between lunar orbit and the surface of the Moon as part of @NASA’s Artemis program! go.nasa.gov/3f0o3ux
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A lunar optimized Starship can fly many times between the surface of the Moon and lunar orbit without flaps or heat shielding required for Earth return
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With large habitable and storage volume, Starship is capable of delivering significant amounts of cargo for research and to support robust operations on the lunar surface to enable a sustainable Moon base
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Last year, NASA announced Starship as eligible for the Commercial Lunar Payload Services (CLPS) initiative – to deliver payloads between Earth and the Moon, and to enable humans to return to the Moon go.nasa.gov/39ioqMZ
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And just last month, NASA selected SpaceX to deliver supplies to Gateway! twitter.com/SpaceX/status/…
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Video recap of Crew Dragon’s in-flight escape test, which verified the system’s capability to carry astronauts to safety in the unlikely event of an emergency on ascent → youtube.com/watch?v=DJ70N5…
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Once Demo-2 is complete, and the SpaceX and NASA teams have reviewed all the data for certification, SpaceX will launch Crew Dragon’s first six-month operational mission (Crew-1) later this year. The Crew-1 spacecraft is in production and astronaut training is well underway
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27th and final test of Crew Dragon’s upgraded Mark 3 parachutes complete – one step closer to flying @NASA astronauts @AstroBehnken and @Astro_Doug to the @Space_Station and safely returning them back home to Earth
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