SpaceX launches 15,000-pound SiriusXM satellite to orbit from Florida
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- Amazon Leo Ready For Initial Service After Final Atlas V Deployment Aviation Week · 37d ago
- SpaceX moonlit launch marks year’s midway point as pace slows on Space Coast Orlando Sentinel · 40d ago
- SpaceX launches SiriusXM satellite into orbit Yahoo · 40d ago
- In June 2026, a SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage designated B1085 lifted a 15,400-pound SiriusXM broadcasting satellite off a Cape Canaveral pad on its seventeenth flight — the same booster that had carried Crew-9 to the space station, Firefly's Blue Ghost lan Space Daily · 40d ago broke it first
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