You can watch the launch of the SES satellites on Friday.
The SES O3b mPower 1 and 2 satellites are scheduled to be launched from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday during an 87-minute window. The time is 2141.
You can watch it here at Space.com, or you can watch it directly from the company. The coverage is expected to start around 15 minutes before the launch.
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If everything goes according to plan, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will return to Earth under nine minutes after launch.
This will be the eighth liftoff and touchdown for this particular booster. Four of its previous flights went to the International Space Station for NASA.
The two satellites will be carried by the upper stage. One hour and 53 minutes after liftoff, the first and second will be deployed into the MEO.
SES plans to assemble a constellation of 11 satellites in MEO. SES, which is based in Luxembourg and France, says that the satellites will provide high-throughput and low-latency communications.
It is part of a busy stretch for the company. The private Japanese Hakuto-R moon landers was to be lofted by NASA early Friday morning.
The Starlink internet satellites will be launched from the Kennedy Space Center on Saturday.
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