Fwd: SpaceX targets first launch of 2014 for Jan. 3

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From: "Gary Johnson" <gjohnson144@comcast.net>
Date: December 27, 2013 10:33:47 PM CST
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Subject: FW: SpaceX targets first launch of 2014 for Jan. 3

 

 

 

 

SpaceX targets first launch of 2014 for Jan. 3

Dec. 27, 2013 4:25 PM   |  

 

Archive video: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 from Cape: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch made for spectacular viewing on the evening of Tuesday, Dec. 3, 2013. The rocket is carrying an SES communications satellite into geostationary orbit.

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FLORIDA TODAY

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Watching the SpaceX launch. Spectators gathered on the beach at the south end of Patrick Air Force Base, just north of Pineda Causeway to watch the December 3rd, 2013 liftoff. / Tim Shortt, FLORIDA TODAY

SpaceX is targeting the Cape's first launch of 2014 one week from today.

A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to blast off with Thaicom Plc's Thaicom 6 television satellite at 5:50 p.m. Jan. 3, the opening of a window that extends to 7:17 p.m.

The launch would be SpaceX's second from the Cape of its upgraded Falcon 9 rocket and second of a commercial communications satellite to a geostationary orbit more than 22,000 miles above Earth, after the Dec. 3 launch of SES-8.

Built by Orbital Sciences Corp. and weighing about 7,300 pounds at launch, Thaicom 6 will provide satellite television service to South and Southeast Asia and southern Africa.

 

 

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