SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket with 22 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

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SpaceX has adjusted the launch time of the Starlink 6-14 mission. It’s now concentrating on a T-0 liftoff at 11:12 p.m. EDT (0312 UTC on Sept. 9). It has yet one more backup time within the launch window at 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 UTC on Sept. 9).

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 second-generation Starlink web satellites at 7:56 p.m. EDT (2356 UTC) Friday night from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station. Further launch alternatives can be found at 11:12 p.m. EDT (0312 UTC) and 11:30 p.m. EDT (0330 UTC). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will land on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ within the Atlantic Ocean. The booster is making its seventh flight.

In line with the forty fifth Climate Squadron, in a forecast issued on Thursday, there’s a 60-percent likelihood of acceptable situations for the primary launch alternative, enhancing to 85 p.c for the later launch alternatives.

Our reside protection from Cape Canaveral, with commentary by Spaceflight Now’s Will Robinson-Smith, will start about an hour earlier than launch.