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Rocketry
Tom McKay
Last night was a rocket launch double header, with multinational company Arianespace planning to launch an Ariane 5 rocket carrying four Galileo GPS satellites for European customers at 9:25PM AEDT and a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch carrying 10 Iridium satellites 15 minutes later at 7:39PM AEDT.
Elon Musk’s SpaceX has delayed the next scheduled launch of its Falcon 9 rocket to at least February 21 for further testing of the rocket’s fairing, the $6 million section at its tip that deploys the rocket’s payload, Space.com reported.
SpaceX founder Elon Musk says that the Falcon Heavy, the launch vehicle being billed as the most powerful rocket in the world, will be ready for its first launch on February 6.
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