Sunday, May 14, 2017

SpaceX expendable Inmarsat 5 launch

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Tomorrow evening at 7:20 pm EDT SpaceX will be launching the Inmarsat 5 satellite from LC-39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center, Florida. The launch will be a Geostationary Transfer Orbit (GTO) launch and the window will be open for 51 minutes and a backup launch window will be Tuesday at 7:20 pm EDT. There will be no first stage landing attempt due to the mission requirements of the payload weight. The Inmarsat-5 satellite is the fourth satellite in the Global Express constellation, which is a high-speed mobile broadband
Falcon 9 being rolled out to the pad.
Credit // Inmarsat
service. Inmarsat is the industry leader and pioneer of mobile satellite communications and has been powering global connectivity for more than 30 years. The Falcon 9 with Inmarsat-5 mated to the second stage was rolled out to the pad earlier today 

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