Home Forums Hunting & Shooting Hunter's Campfire Lunch Launch Today

SpaceX is targeting Thursday, June 17 for Falcon 9’s launch of the GPS III Space Vehicle 05 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. The 15-minute launch window opens at 12:09 p.m. EDT, and a backup launch opportunity is available on Friday, June 18 with a 15-minute launch window opening at 12:05 p.m. EDT.

Falcon 9’s first stage booster previously supported launch of GPS III Space Vehicle 04. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Just Read the Instructions” droneship, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean.

A live webcast of this mission will begin about 15 minutes prior to liftoff. Watch it HERE

private industry rules space launch now

Webcast is up and all is go.

Yet another amazing launch and landing in clear blue skies.

Next SpaceX launch is next week, now set for Thursday.

Great shots of the 1st stage landing today.

Indeed they were. It used to be that they lost video signal when the booster went over the horizon from the Cape. Now they get video all the way to touchdown. I strongly suspect they are using their own Starlink broadband satellites to do this.

Today was their 19th landing just this year and 88th overall. The rest of the world? Zero.

I thought I read that China was or is about to launch something?