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

SpaceX is getting ready to launch its newest batch of broadband web satellites onboard its Falcon 9 rocket in a predawn Falcon 9 launch on Tuesday.

The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-28, will carry 28 satellites into low Earth orbit. SpaceX is focusing on liftoff from Area Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station at 4:21 a.m. EDT (0821 UTC).

Spaceflight Now could have reside protection starting about an hour previous to liftoff.



The forty fifth Climate Squadron forecast a 95 p.c likelihood for favorable climate at liftoff. There may be only a minor risk for interference from cumulus clouds.

SpaceX is utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster B1077 on this mission, which can launch for a twenty second time. Its earlier missions embody NASA’s Crew-5, GPS III Area Automobile 06 and 17 earlier batches of Starlink satellites.

Slightly greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1077 will goal a touchdown on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ If profitable, this would be the 117th landing for this vessel and the 473rd booster touchdown for SpaceX thus far.