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Wednesday, February 21, 2018
 
SpaceX scrubs Falcon 9 PAZ launch with Starlink demo and new fairing – NASASpaceFlight.com

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SpaceX Fairing 2.0 [...] has an estimated cost of about six million dollars
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As the fairing halves descend, they will deploy parachutes [...] and guide themselves towards a recovery boat [...] named Mr. Steven, was outfitted with four large metal arms for recovery operations, which Elon Musk described as a “giant catcher’s mitt”.
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The Paz satellite has a mass at launch of 1,341 kilograms [...] was originally to have been launched by [...] a Dnepr rocket [...] The fallout from Russia’s 2014 military intervention in Ukraine and its annexation of Crimea led to planned Dnepr launches being delayed and now Dnepr looks unlikely ever to fly again.
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Paz will be joined aboard Falcon 9 by MicroSat-2a and 2b, a pair of 400-kilogram demonstration satellites for SpaceX’s planned Starlink internet constellation. The satellites are the first prototypes in a fleet which may consist of up to 12,000 spacecraft. [...] to help provide high-speed broadband internet access around the world.
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The Starlink constellation will consist of Ka- and Ku-band satellites orbiting at an altitude around 1,200 kilometers and V-band satellites orbiting considerably lower – at around 340 kilometers. SpaceX aims to have Starlink fully operational by 2024, with the final operational constellation expected to contain 4,425 satellites across 83 planes in the higher orbit, with a further 7,518 satellites in the lower orbits.
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https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/02/spacex-falcon-9-paz-launch-starlink-demo-new-fairing/
https://www.nasaspaceflight.com/2018/02/spacex-falcon-9-paz-launch-starlink-demo-new-fairing/

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