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SpaceX keeps the pace, China sends cargo to its space station

Astronomy Magazine·Brooks Mendenhall·28 days ago
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Here's what's launching May 5–10: SpaceX has two Starlink missions from Vandenberg, and China will send a resupply ship to the Tiangong space station. A train of newly launched Starlink satellites streaks across the night sky above Carson National Forest, New Mexico. SpaceX launches batches of satellites in groups that travel in close formation before gradually spreading out to their operational orbits. Credit: M. Lewinsky, CC BY 2.0, via Wikimedia Commons Missions this week On Tuesday, May 5 , SpaceX will open the week with the Starlink Group 17-29 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 10:00 p.m. EDT. The Falcon 9 will deliver a batch of Starlink broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit, with the first stage booster targeting a landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific. On Saturday, May 9 , SpaceX returns to Vandenberg for Starlink Group 17-37 at 10:00 a.m. EDT, another Starlink run, again with booster recovery planned on Of Course I Still Love You .…

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