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SpaceX is kicking off the second week of October with a deliberate pair of back-to-back Falcon 9 launches, lifting off from each of its House Power-based launch pads.
Up first is the Starlink 6-22 mission, which is focusing on liftoff from House Launch Complicated 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral House Power Station in Florida at 11:38 p.m. EDT (0338 UTC). It is going to loft 22 Starlink V2 Mini satellites as much as low Earth orbit. The launch had been scheduled earlier within the night however was delayed twice as pre-launch preparations had fallen delayed.
The Florida launch can be adopted lower than 4.5 hours later by the Starlink 7-4 mission, which goals to launch at 12:43 a.m. PDT (3:43 a.m. EDT, 0743 UTC) from House Launch Complicated 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg House Power Base in California. Due to its trajectory, its payload consists of a barely smaller load of 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites.
Each mission will function Falcon 9 rockets. The 2 first-stage boosters, B1067 at SLC-40 and B1063 at SLC-4E, will every be launching for a 14th time.
Each missions even have a number of backup alternatives inside their respective launch home windows. Starlink 6-22 two extra reserve liftoff instances, working from 10:58 p.m. to 12:35 a.m. EDT (0258-0435 UTC), and Starlink 7-4 has 4 further launch instances from 1:30-4:06 a.m. PDT (4:30-8:06 a.m. EDT, 0730-1206 UTC).
Busier yearly
SLC-40 continues to be a workhorse launch pad for SpaceX. Following the Starlink 6-22 mission, the corporate can have used it to launch a complete of 148 instances, a majority of the 263 Falcon 9 launches that can have taken place by that time.
SpaceX can be drastically ramping up exercise at Vandenberg. Following the Starlink 7-4 mission, it is going to account for 21 out of the 22 business launches from VSFB thus far in 2023. The opposite mission was Firefly Aerospace’s Victus Nox launch in September.
Dwell commentary for the Starlink 6-22 mission will start at 10:35 p.m. EDT (0200 UTC). Commentary for the Starlink 7-4 mission can be obtainable in Launchpad Dwell on our YouTube channel.
