spacetoday.net: SpaceX launches Eutelsat communications satellite, Starlink satellites

Posted: Sat, Apr 6, 2024, 10:22 AM ET (1422 GMT)
SpaceX launched a Eutelsat communications satellite on the seventh anniversary of its first reused rocket launch. A Falcon 9 lifted off from the Kennedy Space Center at 5:52 pm EDT (2152 GMT) March 30, placing the Eutelsat 36D satellite into a supersynchronous transfer orbit. The spacecraft, built by Airbus for Eutelsat, will provide Ku-band television and government connectivity services from 36 degrees east in GEO. The launch took place exactly seven years after SpaceX first launched a Falcon 9 wth a previously flown stage, placing an SES communications satellite into orbit. That launch was followed hours later by another Falcon 9 launch from Florida. A Falcon 9 lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 9:30 pm EDT (0130 GMT March 31) placing 23 Starlink satellites into orbit.