The stricken AMC 9 communications satellite that suffered a sudden and unexpected anomaly on June 17 has shed at least three pieces of debris according to information from the U.S. Air Force and private tracking firm ExoAnalytic Solutions.
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Satellite operator SES announced on Monday that the company’s AMC 9 communications satellite suffered “a significant anomaly” over the weekend and that customers were being transferred to alternate satellites to mitigate service outages as a result of the anomaly.
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A highly sophisticated multi-use communications satellite relying on 3D printed parts and ion propulsion lifted off from French Guiana on Thursday atop a Russian-built Soyuz ST-A rocket, carrying out only its second Geostationary Transfer Mission from the French-operated space port on the edge of the Amazon jungle.
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A Russian-built Soyuz Rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 11:54 UTC on May 18, 2017 – carrying out its second Geostationary Transfer Mission from Europe’s space port on the edge of the Amazon jungle.
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A Russian-built Soyuz Rocket lifted off from the Guiana Space Center at 11:54 UTC on May 18, 2017 – carrying out its second Geostationary Transfer Mission from Europe’s space port on the edge of the Amazon jungle.
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The world’s most-watched ‘barge’ pulled into Port Canaveral on Tuesday with plenty of flesh wounds from its latest encounter with a Falcon 9 booster attempting a high-risk landing at sea Friday night that ended with a particularly hard impact on the Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifting the SES-9 communications satellite to Supersynchronous Transfer Orbit on Friday exceeded expectations and delivered the heavy satellite to a higher orbit than anticipated which will be beneficial to the satellite when moving up to Geostationary Orbit.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies on Friday, lifting off from Florida’s Space Coast to boost the SES-9 commercial communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket took to the skies on Friday, lifting off from Florida’s Space Coast to boost the SES-9 commercial communications satellite to Geostationary Transfer Orbit.
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral minutes after sunset on Friday, finally getting off the ground after multiple launch delays over the course of two weeks.
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SpaceX is setting up for the company’s fifth attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES-9 communications satellite – hoping for calm winds, clear seas and cold LOX on Friday to get Falcon 9 off the ground after a series of slips.
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The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the SES-9 communications satellite remains grounded as the long-awaited launch is now looking at a Friday target after being delayed on Tuesday due to unfavorable conditions in the upper atmosphere.
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SpaceX went through a dramatic countdown Sunday night that ended with an abort at the ignition of the Falcon 9 main engines with just around one second before the 70-meter tall rocket would have been committed to flight.
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SpaceX will make a third attempt to launch the Falcon 9 rocket with the SES-9 communications satellite on Sunday. Back to back attempts on Wednesday and Thursday resulted in launch scrubs due to issues associated with the intricacies arising from the use of super-cooled Liquid Oxygen as a performance enhancement measure on the improved Falcon 9 FT launch vehicle.
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The countdown to the second launch of SpaceX’s Falcon 9 FT launch vehicle with the SES-9 communications satellite was aborted at the last minute on Thursday due to problems associated with the modified propellant loading sequence employed by the new Falcon 9.
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SpaceX has opted to delay the launch of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket with the SES-9 communications satellite to Thursday.
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SpaceX is gearing up for the launch of the SES-9 communications satellite atop the company’s Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday.
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