SpaceX is ready to launch yet one more batch of its web satellites to orbit early this morning (April 5).
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 of SpaceX’s Starlink broadband satellites is scheduled to elevate off from Cape Canaveral House Drive Station in Florida right now throughout an hourlong window that opens at 5:12 a.m. EDT (0912 GMT).Â
SpaceX will webcast the launch by way of its account on X, starting about 5 minutes earlier than the window opens.Â
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The Falcon 9’s first stage will come again to Earth safely right now, if all goes in keeping with plan. It would make a vertical touchdown about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on the SpaceX droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which might be stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.Â
It is going to be the 14th launch and touchdown for this specific booster, in keeping with a SpaceX mission description.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage will haul the 23 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, deploying them there about 65 minutes after liftoff.
This morning’s launch would be the thirty third orbital mission of the 12 months already for SpaceX, and the twenty second of 2024 dedicated to constructing out the large Starlink megaconstellation.
The liftoff may even be the primary leg of a Starlink doubleheader, if all goes in keeping with plan: SpaceX plans to launch 21 extra of the web satellites from Vandenberg House Drive Base in California tonight throughout a four-hour window that opens at 10:31 p.m. EDT (0231 GMT on April 6).Â