SpaceX began the U.S. President\u2019s Day holiday with an early-morning Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, pushing through difficult weather conditions to carry out the mission successfully. <\/p>\n
The flight, designated Starlink 6-103, delivered 29 additional broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit, expanding the company\u2019s growing Starlink megaconstellation, which now numbers more than 9,600 spacecraft. It marked SpaceX\u2019s 14th Starlink launch of the year, News.Az<\/a> reports, citing foreign media<\/a>.<\/p>\n The company confirmed that the satellites were successfully deployed roughly one hour after liftoff.<\/p>\n The Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 2:59:40 a.m. EST (0759:40 UTC). After clearing the pad, the rocket followed a south-easterly trajectory as it climbed into orbit, beginning the process of placing the new satellites into their designated positions.<\/p>\n The 45th Weather Squadron forecast just a 20 percent chance for acceptable weather during the launch window. Meteorologists are tracking potentially severe weather heading into the state over the course of Sunday and heading into Monday.<\/p>\n
<\/p>\n Watch Falcon 9 launch 29 @Starlink<\/a> satellites to orbit from Florida https:\/\/t.co\/MXZL12ETyy<\/a><\/p>\n
\u201cAs the low slides eastwards to move off the Georgia coast late tonight, south-southwest winds will increase during the day, even outside of any precipitation,\u201d launch weather officers wrote. \u201cModels have come into better agreement with the timing of a band of pre-frontal showers and storms, currently moving through the Florida Panhandle, reaching the Spaceport just before the opening of the primary window.<\/p>\n \u201cShowers and storms are expected to linger for a few hours into the window before sliding south of the area. While this activity loses intensity as it arrives, strong wind gusts will still be possible. The primary concerns will be the Cumulus Cloud Rule, Surface Electric Fields Rule, and Anvil Cloud Rules, though additional thunderstorm-related rules are likely.\u201d<\/p>\n SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1090. This was its 10th flight after launching previous missions, like NASA\u2019s Crew-10, CRS-33 and Bandwagon-3.<\/p>\n Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1090 landed on the drone ship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas,\u2019 positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. This was the 142nd landing on this vessel and the 572nd booster landing to date.<\/p>\n News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n \t\t\t\t\t\t\tBy Nijat Babayev<\/a>
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