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These 2 replacement birds for the American Sirius digital radio service will launch on 2 seperate missions over the next few weeks

SXM7 - Aug 1st
SXM8 - Q3 2020

both on Falcon
 

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Aug. 1, 2020, 7:27 a.m.
 

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-8
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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-7
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Sept. 30, 2020, midnight
 

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SpaceX Falcon 9 : SXM-7 : 2020 or erlay 2021
 

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Falcon 9 Block 5 | Sirius SXM-7
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Dec. 31, 2020, 2 a.m.
 

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new date
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Dec. 10, 2020, 4:19 p.m.
 

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Indeed ULA got priority and successfully launched NROL-44.

SpaceX Falcon-9 with SXM-7 will launch today, at 17:20 UTC.
 
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That link suggests things are delayed till 17.55 UK time

(Just in time for Star Trek).
 

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Hold at T-30 seconds :-(

Then launch scrubbed
 

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Always the way. at least I can watch Captain Kirk and Crew uninterrupted on The Horror Channel :Y
 

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What I heard in the live broadcast, delay of 48 hours and next attempt at 12:13 UTC. That would be on Sunday 13th, I guess.
 

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it be same time of launch ?
 

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December 13

16:22 - 18:21 (UTC)
 

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Again a delay, to 17:30 UTC.

From FCC:
On November 2, 2020, the Satellite Division granted, with conditions, special temporary authority, for a period of 30 days, to Sirius XM Radio Inc. to:
(1) conduct in-orbit testing (IOT) of the SXM-7 space station at the 120.5° W.L. orbital location rather than the 120.0° W.L. orbit allocation;
(2) conduct IOT in the 2315-2320 MHz (Earth-to-space) and 2345-2350 MHz (Earth-to-space) frequency bands, in addition to the 2320-2345 MHz (space-to-Earth) and 7025-7075 MHz (Earth-to-space) frequency bands previously authorized for operations with SXM-7; and
(3) perform telemetry, tracking, and command (TT&C) operations necessary to maintain SXM-7 at the 120.5° W.L. orbital location and drift SXM-7 to its assigned orbital location at 85.15° W.L. upon completion of IOT.
 

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same report sxm 7 it lost
 

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sxm 8 plan 31 march 2021
 
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