Update, 12:15 PM ET, Monday: SpaceX tweeted some amazing shots of the satellites being deployed in space:View full post on TwitterView full post on TwitterUpdate, 10:51 PM: Liftoff!At 10:50 PM ET tonight, SpaceX plans to launch two satellites into orbit with a Falcon 9 rocket that will take off from Cape Canaveral. The launch window extends for 43 minutes, and weather forecasters estimate a 70% chance of favorable conditions.The payload includes a satellite by Asia Broadcast Satellite, or ABS, and one by Paris-based Eutelsat, both of which will provide broadcast and telecommunications services. What’s remarkable about them is their propulsion systems: USA Today says these will be the first sats entirely reliant upon electrical propulsion, not chemical, to reach their proper orbits.Watch it live here starting at 10:30 PM ET:View full post on IframeThis launch will not be an attempt to land the rocket on a platform at sea:View full post on TwitterAndrew MosemanSite DirectorAndrew’s from Nebraska. His work has also appeared in Discover, The Awl, Scientific American, Mental Floss, Playboy, and elsewhere. He lives in Brooklyn with two cats and a snake.
