SpaceX test-fires rocket for South Korean navy satellite birth this week
The major stage of the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that launched the Demo-2 mission on Would possibly per chance per chance well also 30, 2020, arrives in Florida’s Port Canaveral on June 2, 2020. The identical booster will birth the ANASIS-II navy communications satellite for South Korea on July 14.
(Portray: © SpaceX by strategy of Twitter)
The SpaceX rocket that launched the firm’s first astronaut mission for NASA last month fired up its engines all over again Saturday (July 11) in a test that sets the stage for the beginning of South Korea’s first navy satellite this week.
The Falcon 9 rocket ignited its 9 first-stage Merlin engines temporarily in a so-called static fire test at Home Birth Compex-40 of the Cape Canaveral Air Force Tell in Florida. The celebrated-or-garden SpaceX rocket test clears the model for the deliberate birth of the Anasis-II navy communications satellite for the South Korean authorities on Tuesday (July 14) at 5 p.m. EDT (1700 GMT).
“Static fire test full – targeting July 14 for Falcon 9 birth of ANASIS-II from SLC-40 in Florida,” SpaceX wrote in a Twitter update. The identical Falcon 9 first stage launched NASA astronauts Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Home Tell on Demo-2, SpaceX’s first-ever crewed spaceflight, on Would possibly per chance per chance well also 30, SpaceX added.
The rocket test took place the identical day as a deliberate SpaceX birth of a definite Falcon 9 rocket carrying 57 Starlink web satellites and two BlackSky Global Earth-imaging satellites produce the nearby Pad 39A birth draw at NASA’s Kennedy Home Middle. SpaceX called off that birth on Saturday morning citing the need for more rocket checks.
Constructed by Airbus Defence and Home, Anasis-II has been billed as South Korea’s first navy satellite and is designed to “present secured communications over broad protection,” constant with Airbus.
The recent satellite is constant with Airbus’ Eurostar E3000 satellite platform and will seemingly be launched real into a geostationary orbit, Airbus added. Geostationary orbits enable satellites to support a build over the identical segment of Earth at an altitude of about 22,000 miles (36,000 kilometers).
In step with Spaceflight Now, Anasis-II was formerly is named KMilSatCom. Until this mission, South Korea has relied on civilian-owned and world satellites for communications wants, Spaceflight Now added.
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