SpaceX on Friday will attempt to launch a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:03 a.m., according to SpaceX. Twenty-nine Starlink internet satellites will take the trip to low-Earth orbit in what will be the 16th flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission, SpaceX’s website states. The booster was previously used in Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, SXM-10, MTG-S1, EchoStar XXV, and eight Starlink missions, according to SpaceX. After stage separation, the booster will attempt to land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch later the same day from the Space Coast.>>WESH 2 will stream the launch live at the top of this story.
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SpaceX on Friday will attempt to launch a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:03 a.m., according to SpaceX.
Twenty-nine Starlink internet satellites will take the trip to low-Earth orbit in what will be the 16th flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission, SpaceX’s website states.
The booster was previously used in Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, SXM-10, MTG-S1, EchoStar XXV, and eight Starlink missions, according to SpaceX. After stage separation, the booster will attempt to land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch later the same day from the Space Coast.
>>WESH 2 will stream the launch live at the top of this story.