![]() ![]() 30 launch of Saocom-1B completes Argentina’s Saocom system, comprised of twin 3,000-kilogram satellites equipped with L-band phased array antennas that can image day and night and through clouds. SpaceX launched the first Saocom satellite, Saocom-1A, into a polar orbit from Vandenberg in October 2018 on a Falcon 9. Polar orbits are popular for weather and remote sensing satellites to enable coverage of the Earth’s full surface. “Some of their processing was here and it made more sense,” Schiess said. 25 during a video call with reporters that SpaceX requested to launch Saocom-1B on the polar trajectory from the Cape instead of from Vandenberg Air Force Base in California, as originally planned. Doug Schiess, commander of the 45th Space Wing, which oversees Florida space coast launch ranges, said Aug. SpaceX’s Saocom-1B mission marks the first polar launch from Cape Canaveral since 1969.īrig. Capella Space’s Sequoia satellite is scheduled to launch no earlier than Aug. Synthetic aperture radar startup Capella Space planned to launch a satellite on that mission as a rideshare, but shifted its satellite to a dedicated flight on a Rocket Lab Electron because of that delay. SpaceX intended to launch Saocom-1B in March, but was delayed at CONAE’s request because of the coronavirus. Eastern, but inclement weather delayed that mission until at least Sept. 30, starting with a batch of its own Starlink broadband satellites at 10:12 a.m. SpaceX was attempting to launch two Falcon 9 missions from Cape Canaveral Aug. The company plans to recover the rocket’s payload fairing halves out of the Atlantic Ocean, since SpaceX’s usual fairing recovery ships were deployed in different locations for a since-scrubbed Starlink Falcon 9 mission. SpaceX landed the Falcon 9’s first-stage booster on land at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1, recovering that booster for a fourth time. ![]() 29 delayed that mission by a minimum of seven days, creating an opportunity for SpaceX to launch first. However, a ULA mission abort triggered three seconds before liftoff Aug. SpaceX was waiting to launch until after United Launch Alliance completed the Delta 4 Heavy launch of the National Reconnaissance Office’s NROL-44 satellite, also from Cape Canaveral. The rocket deployed the Saocom-1B synthetic aperture radar satellite for the Argentine space agency CONAE approximately 14 minutes after liftoff, followed by the Tyvak-0172 smallsat and PlanetiQ’s Gnomes-1 commercial weather smallsat about an hour after liftoff. Eastern, from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, overcoming a 60% chance of a weather delay from extensive cloud cover. 30, delivering an Argentine radar satellite and two smallsats into low Earth orbit using a Falcon 9 rocket.įalcon 9 lifted off at 7:19 p.m. WASHINGTON - SpaceX completed its first Cape Canaveral polar launch Aug. ![]()
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