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SpaceX launches 88 satellites in 1 shot; booster nails Florida landing
By Chris Boex
Sonic booms rip across Cape Canaveral as the Falcon 9 first stage returns to Landing Zone 1.
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - A Falcon 9 rocket making its eighth flight hoisted dozens of satellites into space Wednesday afternoon, then roared back to Earth and landed softly just down the coast from its launch pad.
The SpaceX Transporter-2 mission lifted off from Cape Canaveral just after 3:30 p.m., one day after a wayward aircraft prompted a scrub just seconds before launch. The rocket – its white first stage already charred with the soot of seven previous launches and reentries – disappeared into the hazy Florida skies moments after liftoff.
Photo: Space Launch Delta 45 (Fair Use)
Whoever dumped some 66 pounds (30 kilograms) of cocaine that washed up on a beach near Cape Canaveral, Florida, unintentionally gave the Space Force its first taste of the War on Drugs.
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On May 19, the Space Force’s 45th Security Forces Squadron (45th SFS) had its first engagement in the unending, unwinnable, and astonishinglyunpopular conflict started by Richard Nixon with the recovery of two dozen packages of cocaine, estimated by the Brevard County Sheriff’s Office to be worth around $1.2 million, Business Insider reported. That unit is part of Space Launch Delta 45, which is based at Patrick Space Force Base. The drugs were first discovered on the shoreline at nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station by a civilian wildlife manager with Delta 45 s civil engineering squadron.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. More than $1 million worth of cocaine washed ashore on a beach belonging to the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Last month, a wildlife manager from the Patrick Space Force Base nearby noticed a package in the water while she was conducting a sea turtle nesting survey. While I was waiting for them to arrive, I drove a little further and noticed another package, and then another,â Angy Chambers, 45th Civil Engineer Squadron wildlife manager, said in a release from Patrick Space Force Base.
Chambers said she counted at least 18 packages, all of them wrapped tightly in plastic.
SpaceX calls off Starlink launch due to unfavorable weather
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SpaceX has rescheduled Sunday night s launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink satellites into space until Monday. Photo courtesy of SpaceX
Feb. 14 (UPI) SpaceX called off the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 Starlink communications satellites late Sunday due to unfavorable weather.
Liftoff was scheduled for 11:21 p.m. EST from Florida s Cape Canaveral Space Force Base but the launch was scrubbed at the last minute and rescheduled for Monday at 10:59 p.m., SpaceX announced on Twitter.
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Due to unfavorable weather tonight, now targeting Monday, February 15 at 10:59 p.m. EST for Falcon 9 s launch of 60 Starlink satellites SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 15, 2021