SpaceX is hoping to ace its second launch of the day with one other Falcon 9 rocket, this time launching from the East Coast. The Starlink Group 6-24 mission is concentrating on liftoff at 10:17 p.m. EDT (0217 UTC).
The mission would be the a hundred and fiftieth orbital launch for SpaceX from House Launch Complicated 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral House Power Station and the 58th launch from Florida’s House Coast in 2023, breaking the file of 57 launches set final 12 months.
Our stay launch broadcast will begin about one hour previous to launch.
SpaceX is launching on common as soon as each 4 days. The corporate is aiming to ratchet up their launch cadence considerably in 2024, because it not too long ago introduced it could purpose to launch 12 instances per 30 days or 144 instances over the course of the 12 months utilizing its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.
Saturday night time’s launch would be the first time SpaceX has launched 23 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites in a single batch. The primary-stage booster supporting the mission, tail quantity B1080, shall be making its fourth flight after beforehand launching the Ax-2 mission to the Worldwide House Station, the European House Company’s Euclid telescope and the Starlink Group 6-11 mission.
About eight-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, the booster will land on the droneship, “A Shortfall of Gravitas.”
This mission follows the Starlink Group 7-5 mission, which launched from SLC-4E at Vandenberg House Power Base at 1:23 a.m. PDT (4:23 a.m. EDT, 0823 UTC).
