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posted by takyon on Tuesday December 18 2018, @03:22AM   Printer-friendly
from the busy-space dept.

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SpaceX, Blue Origin to launch within minutes of each other Tuesday

The billionaires' battle for commercial space supremacy continues Tuesday with planned launches from both Jeff Bezos' Blue Origin and SpaceX, run by Elon Musk.

Blue Origin only announced the launch window for one of its New Shepard rockets carrying nine NASA-sponsored experiments into space a day ahead of time. Blast-off is set for 8:30 a.m. Central time from the company's west Texas launch facility.

That comes less than 20 minutes after the launch window for a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket opens at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida starting at 9:11 Eastern time. A brand new Block 5 Falcon 9 booster will loft into orbit GPS III SV01, a new, super powerful global positioning system satellite for the US Air Force. You may also hear the satellite called by its nickname, "Vespucci."

And, not to be left out of the fun, Arianespace is set to launch about 2 hours later... and then India's GSLV is set to launch at 10:30 UTC that same day!

Launch Schedule – Spaceflight Now

Update: Double scrubbing has dashed hopes of a 4-launch day.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Tuesday December 18 2018, @04:23AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Tuesday December 18 2018, @04:23AM (#775729) Journal

    Still, 3x higher accuracy is going to ruin the whole bounce around the area approach to playing Ingress.

    That's what's important here!

    I would watch this launch's results. Articles like this [spacenews.com] should make us a little nervous.

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