321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (June 6)
Space Force chooses Space Coast for STARCOM
After years of surveys and deliberations, the Space Force last week announced it would headquarter one of its major commands at Patrick Space Force Base in Florida.
The headquarters for the Space Training and Readiness Command, or STARCOM, will initially bring hundreds of personnel to the Space Coast to help develop training programs for Space Force members. The Patrick operation will also include Space Delta 10, which is responsible for wargaming and tactics. Colorado and New Mexico were selected to host STARCOM's other two deltas.
The command, one of three under the branch established in December 2019, is responsible for education, training, and development of space professionals. That's in addition to "the development of space warfighting doctrine, tactics, techniques and procedures, and the operational test and evaluation of Space Force systems," the Air Force said in a release.
SpaceX launches ISS resupply mission
SpaceX brought excitement to the start of the work week Monday morning by launching a Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon cargo vessel from Kennedy Space Center on a resupply run to the International Space Station.
After enduring multiple delays over the weekend due to poor weather, the 230-foot rocket's nine Merlin 1D engines roared to life at 11:47 a.m. EDT Monday, June 5. Flying from pad 39A, it marked SpaceX's 28th contracted International Space Station resupply mission (CRS-28) for NASA.
Monday's flight, the 28th to take off from Florida's Space Coast this year, was SpaceX's second mission in as many days taking off roughly 27 hours after the liftoff of a Starlink mission from nearby Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Sunday.
Upcoming launches:
NET June 10: SpaceX Starlink
Company / Agency: Internal SpaceX mission
Rocket: Falcon 9
Location: Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station
Launch Window: 3:31 a.m. to 7 a.m. EDT
Trajectory: TBD
Weather: TBD
Landing: TBD
Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will take the company's next batch of internet-beaming Starlink internet satellites to low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
As usual, we'll have live coverage of these missions at floridatoday.com/space. For the latest, see our full schedule at floridatoday.com/launchschedule.
Contact Emre Kelly at aekelly@floridatoday.com. Follow him on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram at @EmreKelly.
This article originally appeared on Florida Today: 321 Launch: Space news you may have missed over the past week (June 6)
