SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket carrying the BADR 8 communications satellite for Arabsat based in Saudi Arabia. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is now scheduled for 12:30 a.m. tonight. The Falcon 9 first-stage will be making its 14th flight and will land on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.
From geostationary orbit, BADR 8 will provide communications coverage for Arabsat customers over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. BADR 8 also hosts an optical communications payload developed by Airbus. The spacecraft was built by Airbus, and is based on the Eurostar Neo platform.
Commentary will be provided by Spaceflight Now’s editor Stephen Clark.
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fell asleep watching it, haha but the replay looks amazing!
I was watching it live and It was about 7 or 6 minutes til liftoff and I fell asleep at that point
came back to watch the satellite deployment! What a beautiful shot of the satellite and Earth. As always, your coverage is awesome, commentary perfect. Great Job SFN!
You know I can understand a tiny bit of latency as the craft gets further away. But when it’s still on the pad and you can hear someone in the background 6 seconds behind the countdown? Radio waves travel just slightly slower than the speed of light and you’re telling me they’re six seconds behind due to latency? And I just got to the point in the video where you’re asking for money in the superchat! How much money would it take to buy two clocks that are synchronized? And I’m not even talking about the atomic clocks that receive their signal from Fort Carson. Maybe the U.S. government would be bet off if it was funded by superchat!