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SpaceX team has completed 13 successful tests in a row of upgraded Mark 3 parachutes for Crew Dragon. Most recent test demonstrated the parachute system’s ability to land the spacecraft safely in the unlikely event that one of the four main parachutes fails.
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, completing this booster’s second GPS III flight
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Updated launch and landing photos → flickr.com/spacex
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View from the droneship of Falcon 9’s landing
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In addition to withstanding extreme cold, heat, hail, sleet, heavy rain, and gale force winds, Starlink is rugged enough to withstand rocket landings. Here’s live video captured on a SpaceX droneship at sea with and without Starlink
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Falcon Heavy in the hangar at Launch Complex 39A
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship – marking SpaceX’s first 13th flight of a first stage booster and 100th successful mission with a flight proven orbital class rocket!
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Falcon 9 will launch @NASA’s SPHEREx mission – which will collect data on more than 300 million galaxies and explore how the universe began – from our launch site at Vandenberg AFB as early as June 2024 → nasa.gov/press-release/…
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SpaceX had four rockets on four pads and two Dragons on orbit today—as CRS-26 Dragon departed the @Space_Station with Crew-5 Dragon still attached to the orbiting lab, Falcon Heavy rolled out of the hangar, two Falcon 9’s readied for launch, and Ship 24 was stacked onto Booster 7
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Back-to-back Falcon 9 launches of Starlink within 24 hours, completing SpaceX's 19th and 20th launches of the year
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship
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All systems remain go for today’s test flight of Falcon Heavy. Weather is 90% favorable for today’s two-and-a-half hour launch window, which opens at 1:30 p.m. EST, or 18:30 UTC.
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The Starship team is go for prop load; team is keeping an eye on the weather → spacex.com/launches
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Falcon Heavy launches USSF-44 to orbit, and its two side boosters return to Earth – SpaceX's 50th mission of 2022
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First two countries in Africa with Starlink regulatory approval; Starlink is now licensed on all seven continents! twitter.com/elonmusk/statu…
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Successful deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
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33 Raptor engines installed on the Booster, 6 on the Ship
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Crew Dragon is on SpaceX’s recovery vessel—completing the spacecraft’s first test mission!
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Crew Dragon and Falcon 9 in the hangar at Launch Complex 39A ahead of launching four astronauts to the @Space_Station; liftoff targeted for Saturday, November 14 at 7:49 p.m. EST
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View of Starship liftoff from South Padre Island
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