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Plus, you can angle the bookends to reveal the wood stripe or keep it subtly hidden. The smart, almost triangular design gives you the flexibility to position them vertically or horizontally. The Spruce Home Improvement Review BoardĬonstructed from white marble and espresso-toned wood, these chic Main + Mesa bookends will complement collections big and small.The rocket is becoming a heavy lift workhorse for SpaceX while the company continues efforts to build out its Starship and Super Heavy rocket. It also has what would be its third Department of Defense mission that could fly as early as November. Those include its first deep-space mission for NASA, which will send a probe named Psyche to an asteroid of the same name targeting launch as early as Oct. It has two more potential launches before the end of the year after the EchoStar mission. It then flew a pair of missions in 2019 before finally getting back to launches in November 2022 after a three-year hiatus.ĭuring that run, it was the most powerful rocket in use until NASA’s Space Launch System successfully lifted off on the Artemis I mission to the moon.įor 2023, the pace for Falcon Heavy use has picked up, having already flown in January and May. Its first launch in 2018 was a test mission that brought more than an estimated 100,000 fans out to the Space Coast to watch the rocket send Elon Musk’s Tesla roadster into space. In the end the two missions lifted off 23 hours and three minutes apart.įriday’s Falcon Heavy launch was only the seventh time it had ever taken off. 12, 1966 when Gemini 11 & Titan-11 launched. The previous was 1 hour 37 minutes on Sept. This could represent the shortest time between launches from the ER on record. SLD 45 has the opportunity to make history tonight, as we support two launches between 02:04 UTC and 04:44 UTC. The Gemini and Agena vehicles were launched in tandem during the program that laid the groundwork for the Apollo moon missions. 12, 1966 when the Gemini XI mission launched its Agena Target Vehicle from what was then Cape Kennedy’s Launch Complex 14 one hour and 37 minutes before astronauts Charles “Pete” Conrad and Richard Gordon launched on their Titan II rocket one mile north from Launch Complex 19. The existing record between launches from the Space Coast came on Sept. That would have set a Space Coast record. It was originally targeting a launch on Wednesday, but SpaceX aborted that attempt just over a minute before liftoff, and then opted to delay until Friday.Īt one point, the Space Force’s Space Launch Delta 45 thought it would be supporting both launches on Thursday night potentially setting up liftoffs within an hour of one another.

Taking advantage of that lift capacity, the Jupiter 3 satellite, also called the EchoStar XXIV, which was built by Maxar Technologies out of Palo Alto, California, weighs more than 22,000 pounds and will be the largest commercial communications satellite in orbit once fully deployed with a wingspan of a commercial airliner, according to a press release from Hughes. The company has also now reused boosters for launches 185 times.įalcon Heavy is one of the most powerful available for Space Coast launches, essentially three Falcon 9 rockets strapped together that produce 5.1 million pounds of thrust at liftoff. The three landings bring SpaceX’s total to 212 recoveries since the first one in 2015. It instead fell into the Atlantic down range after expending its fuel. The center booster’s fuel, though, was needed to get the payload to its geosynchronous transfer orbit about 22,000 miles above Earth, so no recovery landing was possible. Their landing marked their third trip to space having each flown on two previous Space Force missions. Two previous recent Starlink mission boosters hold the record having flown 16 times.įor the Falcon Heavy launch, the two side boosters made their return to Canaveral’s Landing Zone 1 and Landing Zone 2, bringing with it the double sonic boom that SpaceX had warned might be heard, and felt, across Central Florida.įalcon Heavy’s side boosters have landed on LZ-1 and LZ-2 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station /OItmoqvgrr For the Falcon 9 mission, the first-stage booster flew for a 15th time making another recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean. The pair of launches also became the 249th and 250th successful orbital launches for SpaceX since its first Falcon 1 launch in 2008.īy the end of the day, SpaceX had also managed three of the four boosters on its two flights.

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