SpaceX plans to ship a set of web satellites to orbit for one more firm early Sunday morning (Oct. 20).
SpaceX plans to launch the final batch of Eutelsat OneWeb’s V1 satellites from California’s Vandenberg House Pressure Base atop a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday at 1:13 a.m. EDT (0513 GMT; 10:13 p.m. on Oct. 19 native California time).
You may watch the dwell broadcast through SpaceX’s stream on X, previously Twitter.
If all goes to plan, roughly eight minutes after launch, the Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth at Vandenberg’s Touchdown Zone 4.
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Eutelsat OneWeb’s most up-to-date launch with SpaceX, on Could 20, 2023, introduced the corporate’s constellation to 634 satellites. On the time, Eutelsat OneWeb stated the brand new batch of 16 satellites can be sufficient to take their companies world.
“OneWeb is on monitor to ship world protection this 12 months and is already within the strategy of scaling companies for patrons all over the world,” firm officers acknowledged on the time. (The corporate was then generally known as OneWeb; the merger with Eutelsat occurred in September 2023.)
“With the addition of the satellites deployed from this launch, OneWeb will enhance the resiliency and redundancy within the constellation because it expands companies to its rising base of enterprise and authorities prospects.”
Earlier to that effort, SpaceX despatched three units of OneWeb satellites aloft in units of 40 spacecraft every.
SpaceX’s settlement to launch Eutelsat OneWeb satellites dates to March 2022, after the latter firm pivoted from an settlement to make use of Russian-built Soyuz rockets by means of the French firm Arianespace.
Shortly after Russia’s unsanctioned invasion of Ukraine, Russian federal house company Roscosmos stated it will not launch 36 OneWeb satellites then mounted on a Soyuz rocket until the corporate met two circumstances.
These circumstances have been that the spacecraft wouldn’t be used for navy functions, and the UK would divest itself from the corporate’s traders. OneWeb didn’t accede and the Soyuz was rolled off the launch pad on the Roscosmos-operated Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan, replete with the satellites.
