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One day, two launches, fourteen satellites
Last Wednesday, on July 25, 2018, a rather rare event in the aerospace field occurred: Two launches less than 14 minutes apart! Alongside this coincidence, we naturally find ourselves with two payloads on their way to their orbits at the same time, which deserves to be highlighted. What are these payloads, you ask? There were…
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The second Falcon 9 Block 5 for the heaviest geostationary satellite.
Do you remember the launch of Bangabandhu-1? It was the first launch of the latest version of the Falcon 9: the Block 5! On Sunday, July 22, 2018, it was the turn of the Telstar 19V satellite to take off aboard a Block 5, the second one produced and launched by SpaceX. The launch took…
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American-Russian resupply of the ISS
The International Space Station constantly requires resupply, whether it be provisions for the astronauts, scientific experiments they must conduct, or spare parts to repair faulty elements of this gigantic laboratory. In less than two weeks, the station received two new cargo shipments, totaling no less than 5.5 tons of payload. These two cargos were the…