SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is making ready to launch its newest batch of Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit on Tuesday evening.

The Starlink 6-93 mission would be the firm’s 470th Falcon 9 rocket launch so far and can add one other 28 satellites to the constellation of greater than 7,300 presently on orbit. Liftoff from House Launch Advanced 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral House Power Station is scheduled for 9:17 p.m. EDT (0117 UTC).

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On Monday, the forty fifth Climate Squadron forecast a 85 p.c likelihood for favorable climate through the four-hour launch window. Considerations revolve across the potential impacts from anvil and cumulus clouds.

SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail quantity 1085, which might be making its seventh journey to house and again. It beforehand launched NASA’s Crew-9, Fram2, Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1 and GPS 3 House Car 07.

A bit of greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1085 will goal a touchdown on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’ (JRTI). If profitable, this would be the 119th booster touchdown for JRTI and the 442nd booster touchdown so far.