distance First high-altitude test flight of the latest Starship prototype, Which ended with some serious fireworks, SpaceX is back to business as usual with the latest launch of one of its giant Falcon 9 rockets.
Elon Musk’s rocket company sent a new satellite, SiriusXM, into orbit from Cape Canaveral, Florida, at 9:30 a.m. PDT on Sunday. The satellite is marked SXM-7 and will replace the company’s XM-3 satellite.
The launch was originally scheduled for Friday, but the launch was canceled only 30 seconds before the countdown clock.
The SXM-7 was built by the contractor Maxar that she said in a statement It “will provide the highest power density of any commercial satellite in orbit, sending more than 8,000 watts of content to the continental United States, Canada, Puerto Rico and the Caribbean, increasing the signal quality to SiriusXM subscribers.”
To get the job, SpaceX used a veteran first-stage booster that had flown on six previous missions. Successfully landing for the seventh time on the unmanned ship, read only instructions in the Atlantic shortly after takeoff.
You can watch the live replay above.
SpaceX currently has another launch scheduled for 2020, and a National Reconnaissance Office spy satellite is scheduled to launch on top of Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral on Thursday, December 17th.
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