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SpaceX’s commercial launch from Vandenberg in California of the Cassiope satellite has now been set for September 5.

SpaceX’s commercial launch from Vandenberg in California of the Cassiope satellite has now been set for September 5.

This is actually the first firm launch date I’ve seen for this satellite.

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On Christmas Eve 1968 three Americans became the first humans to visit another world. What they did to celebrate was unexpected and profound, and will be remembered throughout all human history. Genesis: the Story of Apollo 8, Robert Zimmerman's classic history of humanity's first journey to another world, tells that story, and it is now available as both an ebook and an audiobook, both with a foreword by Valerie Anders and a new introduction by Robert Zimmerman.

 
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3 comments

  • Dick Eagleson

    The launch list on the spaceflightnow.com website had this mission scheduled for July 9 for quite awhile. A month or so ago it changed to just “Summer”. It’s still that way. I’ll keep looking over the next few days to see whether spaceflightnow.com changes to the Sept. 5 date for this mission. For what it’s worth, their list also shows a pair of comsat launches on Falcon 9’s from the Cape still with August dates. As the CASSIOPE mission is supposed to be the first F9R mission, I’m guessing these other missions will be moved further back in the year too.

  • The August dates are not specific dates, just that they hope to launch in August. That’s not the same as a specific date, which we now have for the Cassiope launch.

    I take the latter far more seriously.

  • Dick Eagleson

    Yeah. Me too. But even specific dates on the spaceflightnow.com list have their problems. As of yesterday, they had Orbital and SpaceX launching resupply missions to the ISS a day apart in early December. At least one of these is clearly wrong. The info on this list is looking a lot squishier lately. “Scheduled” launch dates of all kinds seem to be iffier than they used to be.

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