SpaceX will host next Cape Canaveral launch this month with Falcon 9

Emre Kelly
Florida Today
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40 with the GovSat-1 communications satellite on Wednesday, Jan. 31, 2018.

SpaceX is scheduled host the next Eastern Range launch with its Falcon 9 rocket later this month.

Teams are targeting no earlier than 12:35 a.m. Feb. 22 for the launch from Cape Canaveral Air Force Station's Launch Complex 40 with a commercial communications satellite for Hispasat, an operator based in Spain with subsidiaries in Latin America.

Labeled Hispasat 30W-6, the satellite will provide television, broadband, corporate and other communications to the Americas and Europe. It was manufactured by Space Systems Loral in Palo Alto, California, before shipment to Cape Canaveral in mid-January.

Falcon 9 will deliver H30W-6 to a geostationary transfer orbit.

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