Space X’s Falcon 9 launches 23 Starlink satellites into space; marks 47th orbital mission

NEW DELHI: Space X on Wednesday launched 23 internet satellites into space from Kennedy Space Center, marking its 47th orbital mission. The Falcon 9‘s first stage returned to Earth around 8.5 minutes later, landing on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas”, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.According to the SpaceX mission description, this was the third … Read more

SpaceX launches NASA’s $948 million PACE environmental research satellite

SpaceX launched an environmental research satellite for NASA early Thursday, a nearly $1 billion spacecraft that survived multiple cancellation threats and is now poised to shed new light on climate change and the complex interplay of heat-trapping carbon, aerosols and sea life on global scales. The Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem mission — PACE — … Read more

Nasa’s PACE ocean-monitoring satellite all set to be launched on Tuesday

NEW DELHI: Nasa‘s PACE spacecraft is set to launch atop a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday at 1.33 am EST (12.03 pm IST). PACE, which is short for Plankton, Aerosol, Cloud, ocean Ecosystem, aims to map the colors of the ocean and help scientists gauge the health … Read more