SpaceX plans to launch 24 extra of its Starlink web satellites from Florida’s Area Coast at the moment (Nov. 10).
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to raise off from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station at the moment throughout a four-hour window that opens at 4:28 p.m. EST (2028 GMT).
SpaceX will webcast the launch reside by way of X, starting about 5 minutes earlier than liftoff.
If all goes to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come again to Earth for a vertical landing about eight minutes after liftoff on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” which shall be stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.
It is going to be the twelfth launch and touchdown for this explicit booster, in line with a SpaceX mission description. 5 of its earlier 11 flights had been Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, will proceed carrying the 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), deploying them there about 65 minutes after liftoff.
At present’s launch will observe on the heels of one other Starlink mission, which lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Area Pressure Base early on Saturday morning (Nov. 9).
SpaceX has now launched 106 Falcon 9 missions in 2024. Practically 70% of them have been devoted to constructing out the Starlink megaconstellation, which presently consists of greater than 6,500 lively spacecraft.
