LEO – Lifeboat News: The Blog https://lifeboat.com/blog Safeguarding Humanity Tue, 25 Apr 2017 06:57:32 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.6.2 SpaceX Changes Its Falcon 9 Rocket Return-to-Flight Plans — By Peter B. de Selding | SPACE.com https://lifeboat.com/blog/2015/10/spacex-changes-its-falcon-9-rocket-return-to-flight-plans-by-peter-b-de-selding-space-com Mon, 19 Oct 2015 23:56:43 +0000 http://lifeboat.com/blog/?p=18560 orbcomm-falcon-9-hanger

“SpaceX on Oct. 16 said it had changed its Falcon 9 return-to-flight plans and would first launch 11 small Orbcomm messaging satellites into low Earth orbit, and then test reignition of the rocket’s redesigned second-stage engine during the same flight before launching SES’s heavier telecommunications satellite into higher orbit, a mission that will need the reignition capability

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