{"id":22014,"date":"2020-06-16T14:10:59","date_gmt":"2020-06-16T18:10:59","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22014"},"modified":"2020-06-16T16:22:13","modified_gmt":"2020-06-16T20:22:13","slug":"space-transport-roundup-june-16-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hobbyspace.com\/Blog\/?p=22014","title":{"rendered":"Space transport roundup – June.16.2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

A sampling of recent articles, videos, and images dealing with space transport (find previous roundups here<\/a>):<\/p>\n

** SpaceX<\/a> launches Starlink and Planet<\/a> SkyNet satellites<\/strong>. Early Saturday morning, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 from Cape Canaveral for the second time in June with a batch of satellites for the Starlink broadband Internet constellation. Rather than the usual 60 satellites, however, this flight carried 58 Starlinks, leaving out two to provide room for three SkyNet earth observation satellites from Planet Labs and their deployment mechanism. Not long after the upper stage reached orbit, the three SkySats could be seen drifting away during the live webcast. The subsequent deployment of the Starlinks took place during a communications gap. The Starlinks will use\u00a0 their onboard propulsion systems to reach their final operating orbits.<\/p>\n