SpaceX launched the SXM-10 satellite tv for pc for SiriusXM early Saturday morning (June 7), including one other spacecraft to the corporate’s broadcasting constellation.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying SXM-10 lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Area Power Station on Saturday at 12:54 a.m. EDT (0454 GMT).
The rocket’s first stage got here again to Earth about 8.5 minutes later as deliberate, touching down on the SpaceX drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” which was stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the eighth launch and touchdown for this specific booster, in accordance with a SpaceX mission description.
Amongst its earlier missions have been the Crew-9 and Fram2 astronaut flights and the liftoff on Jan. 15 of this 12 months that despatched two non-public moon landers — Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost and ispace’s Resilience — towards Earth’s nearest neighbor.
Blue Ghost aced its lunar landing on March 2, however Resilience crashed throughout its touchdown try on Thursday (June 5).
The Falcon 9’s higher stage carried SXM-10 to geosynchronous switch orbit excessive above Earth on Saturday, deploying it there about 33 minutes after launch as deliberate.
The 14,100-pound (6,400 kilograms) satellite tv for pc, which was constructed by Maxar Applied sciences, will now maneuver to hitch SiriusXM’s radio constellation, including its personal capabilities to the combination.
Saturday’s launch was SpaceX’s second for SiriusXM in simply six months; a Falcon 9 lofted the SXM-9 satellite tv for pc in early December 2024.
SpaceX has now launched 69 Falcon 9 missions in 2025. Fifty-one of them have been devoted to constructing out the corporate’s Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.
