Space News Webcasts: Used SpaceX Rocket Launching Bulgarian Satellite @ 3:10 pm ET

By SPACE.com Staff | June 23, 2017 02:56pm ET


A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that has launched once before will make its second flight no earlier than Friday, June 23, to launch BulgariaSat-1, the first Bulgarian satellite, from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch was delayed from a Monday liftoff due to a suspect payload fairing valve. SpaceX will launch the mission at 2:10 p.m. EDT (1810 GMT) and has a two-hour window that closes at 4:10 pm EDT (2010 GMT), if needed. You can watch the launch here - as well as directly from SpaceX's webcast site - starting at 1:55 p.m. EDT (1755 GMT), as SpaceX's webcast will begin about 15 minutes before launch.

Update: The SpaceX team is running additional ground system checks, so the liftoff has been moved to 3:10 p.m. EDT.


A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket that has launched once before will make its second flight no earlier than Friday, June 23, to launch BulgariaSat-1, the first Bulgarian satellite, from Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch was delayed from a Monday liftoff due to a suspect payload fairing valve. SpaceX will launch the mission at 2:10 p.m. EDT (1810 GMT) and has a two-hour window that closes at 4:10 pm EDT (2010 GMT), if needed. You can watch the launch here - as well as directly from SpaceX's webcast site - starting at 1:55 p.m. EDT (1755 GMT), as SpaceX's webcast will begin about 15 minutes before launch.

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This launch will mark SpaceX's second flight using a used Falcon 9 first stage. The booster being used on this flight previously launched SpaceX's Iridium-1 mission from Vandenberg Air Force Base in January of this year. After launch, the booster is expected to land on SpaceX's off-shore droneship "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Atlantic Ocean.

From SpaceX:

"BulgariaSat-1 is a geostationary communications satellite built by SSL in Palo Alto, Calif., which will provide direct-to-home television (DTH) and data communications services to Southeastern Europe and other European regions. It will be located at the Bulgarian orbital position at 1.9 degrees East longitude and will provide reliable satellite communications solutions to broadcast, telecom, corporate and government customers.

"BulgariaSat-1’s payload includes 30 Broadcast Satellite Service (BSS) Ku-band transponders and two Fixed Satellite Service (FSS) Ku-band transponders, in order to meet the current demand for high quality HDTV and Ultra HDTV broadcasting, as well as various other communications applications.

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