SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

Replace: SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket at 11:20 p.m. EST (0420 UTC). The booster landed about 8.5 minutes later.

The subsequent batch of Starlink satellites for SpaceX’s space-based web service flew aboard a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Monday night time from Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station.

Liftoff occurred at 11:20 p.m. EST (0420 UTC). Meteorologists with the forty fifth Climate Squadron predicted good climate for launch with a 90-percent probability of acceptable circumstances on the opening of the launch window.

The primary stage booster flying on this mission, tail quantity 1062, made its seventeenth flight. It beforehand supported two crewed missions with the Ax-1 personal astronaut mission to the Worldwide Area Station in addition to the Inspiration4 mission.

The Falcon 9 first stage landed on the drone ship “Simply Learn the Directions” about eight and a half minutes after launch. The droneship, a transformed ocean-going barge, is one in all three operated by SpaceX and shall be stationed about 420 miles (620km) downrange, East of the Bahamas. The 2 halves of the payload fairing parachuted to a splashdown slightly additional downrange the place they have been scooped up by SpaceX’s assist vessel “Bob”.

If all goes based on plan the Starlink satellites shall be deployed from the second-stage of the Falcon 9 slightly over an hour into the mission. A profitable flight will deliver the whole variety of Starlink satellites launched to five,514.

Starlink 6-30 by the numbers

This would be the:

• 57th Starlink mission of 2023
• 277th Falcon 9 launch up to now
• 83rd Falcon 9 launch of 2023
• 87th SpaceX orbital launch of 2023
• 94th SpaceX orbital launch within the final three hundred and sixty five days
• 157th SpaceX orbital launch from pad 40
• 212nd general orbital launch from pad 40
• 66th orbital launch from Cape Canaveral