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File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of the Starlink 12-18 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n\t\tFile: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of the Starlink 12-18 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n
SpaceX is preparing for a near sunrise Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The Starlink 10-27 mission will send 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft will deploy from the rocket\u2019s upper stage a little more than an hour after the rocket clears the pad at Space Launch Complex 40.<\/p>\n
SpaceX is targeting liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 UTC). The rocket will head away from Florida\u2019s Space Coast on a north-easterly trajectory.<\/p>\n
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n
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The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 90 percent chance for favorable weather during the Sunday launch window. Meteorologists said there was just a small chance for interference from cumulus clouds thanks to \u201cbelow average rain chances\u201d this weekend and early next week.<\/p>\n
\u201cDry air in the mid-levels will continue to limit daily lightning chances,\u201d launch weather officers said. \u201cIsolated coastal showers are likely during both launch windows, but will only be a distant concern for the flight through portion of the Cumulus Cloud Rule due to their expected low-topped nature.\u201d<\/p>\n
SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1085 to launch the Starlink 10-27 mission. This will be its 11th flight following missions like NASA\u2019s Crew-9, Fram2 and Firefly Aerospace\u2019s Blue Ghost Mission 1.<\/p>\n
Roughly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX will attempt to land B1085 on its droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas. A successful landing would be the 125th touchdown on this vessel and the 508th booster landing to date for SpaceX.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":114101,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-157626","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157626","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=157626"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/157626\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/114101"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=157626"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=157626"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=157626"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}