Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch a new communications satellite on Tuesday (Nov. 22) - Space.com

Update for 9:30 p.m. ET: SpaceX has postponed the motorboat of the Eutelsat 10B outer by 24 hours, to nary earlier than Tuesday, Nov. 22, to let much clip for further checks connected the mission's Falcon 9 rocket. Liftoff remains acceptable for 9:57 p.m. EST (0257 Nov. 23 GMT). The hold means the motorboat volition present liftoff astir 6 hours aft SpaceX's motorboat of a caller Dragon cargo vessel to the International Space Station for NASA.

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SpaceX volition usage a Falcon 9 rocket to motorboat the Eutelsat 10B ngo connected behalf of Eutelsat Tuesday (Nov. 22) astatine 9:57 p.m. EST (0257 connected Nov. 23 GMT). Live sum volition beryllium disposable present astatine Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, astir 15 minutes earlier the liftoff.

The ngo volition motorboat from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station successful coastal Florida; the Falcon 9 rocket's archetypal signifier is expected to interaction down connected a adjacent drone ship, stationed successful the Atlantic Ocean, astir 10 minutes aft liftoff. This volition beryllium the 11th motorboat for this Falcon 9 archetypal stage, according to SpaceX.

"The Falcon 9 archetypal signifier booster supporting this ngo antecedently launched Telstar 18 Vantage, Iridium-8 and 8 Starlink missions," SpaceX officials wrote of the rocket. (Starlink is SpaceX's broadband Internet bid of satellites, with much than 3,000 presently progressive successful orbit.)

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During the launch, Eutelsat 10B volition beryllium placed into a geostationary transportation orbit to marque its mode to a geosynchronous orbit, meaning that it volition orbit the Earth successful specified a mode to consistently regard astatine 1 portion of the satellite below.

Eutelsat 10B volition see a high-capacity communications payload successful the Ku-band "in the busiest aerial and oversea postulation zones" implicit the North Atlantic, Europe, the Mediterranean basin and the Middle East, Eutelsat officials wrote (opens successful caller tab) of the mission. A 2nd Ku-band payload volition beryllium disposable for the Atlantic Ocean, Africa and the Indian Ocean.

The outer besides carries 2 widebeam C- and Ku-band payloads for existing customers upon Eutelsat 10A, Eutelsat officials stated. The caller outer volition regenerate the 12-year-old Eutelsat 10A, which is expected to participate its extremity of work successful 2023 for customers successful the Americas and Asia.

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