SpaceX’s thirtieth launch of 2026 is within the books.
One of many firm’s Falcon 9 rockets lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station on Tuesday (March 10) at 12:19 a.m. EDT (0419 GMT), carrying the 15,000-pound (6,800-kilogram) EchoStar XXV TV satellite tv for pc skyward.
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The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, continued carrying EchoStar XXV to distant geosynchronous switch orbit, the place the satellite tv for pc was deployed on schedule 35 minutes after liftoff.
EchoStar XXV will make its personal technique to geostationary orbit, a round path 22,236 miles (35,786 kilometers) above Earth. After a sequence of checkouts, the satellite tv for pc will begin beaming TV indicators down for patrons of the Dish Community, a subsidiary of Colorado-based EchoStar.
Tuesday’s launch was a relative rarity for SpaceX today — a mission that wasn’t dedicated to constructing out the corporate’s big Starlink broadband megaconstellation. Twenty-four of SpaceX’s 30 orbital launches in 2026 have been Starlink missions.
