Falcon 9 to send Starlink satellites into orbit
FILE – In this time-exposure photograph, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the 25th batch of approximately 60 satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink broadband network lifts off from the Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Cape Canaveral, Fla., late Wednesday, April 28, 2021. (AP Photo/John Raoux, File) (John Raoux, Copyright 2021 The Associated Press. All rights reserved)
CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX early Saturday will attempt to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida, sending Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.
The launch window runs from midnight Friday to 3:17 a.m. Saturday.
The mission will launch 29 satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
The launch will mark the first flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission.
Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean.
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