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| SpaceX conducts successful sunset static fire test of Falcon 9 first stage engines at 1:20 p.m. EST under gloomy skies on Dec. 13, 2019 with exhaust wafting overhead at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station for the JCSAT-19/Kacific-1 comsat launch slated for launch Dec. 16. The scene includes iconic VAB at left as seen from the Indian River in Titusville, FL. Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com |
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December 2019
Ken Kremer – For SpaceUpClose.com &
RocketSTEM Titusville, FL- A successful static fire test at lunchtime today Friday the 13th under gloomy skies of a twice flown Falcon 9 booster by SpaceX sets up the nighttime launch of the Boeing-built JCSAT-18/Kacific-1 broadband internet comsat for Japan and the Asia-Pacific region on Monday, Dec. 16 – as the opening salvo of a double-barreled series of blastoffs next week on the Florida Space Coast that concludes with the historic first blastoff of Boeing’s Starliner astronaut ferryship on Friday, Dec. 20.
And the weather outlook for both is currently quite good at the Cape.
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