SpaceX launches the Twilight rideshare mission Jan. 11 on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB, California, with the first stage booster landing back at Vandenberg following stage separation.
Credit: SpaceX
A Jan. 11 SpaceX rideshare launch carried 40 payloads to orbit, including 10 satellites from Kepler Communications to operationalize the Toronto company’s optical relay network. That first tranche of satellites, once operational, will form the beginning of a forthcoming on-orbit cloud environment...
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