Simply over six hours after launching the primary crewed mission of 2024 from Florida, SpaceX is making ready for an additional Falcon 9 rocket launch from California. The Starlink 7-11 mission is about to launch at 8:04 p.m. PST (11:04 p.m. EST (0404 UTC).
This might be SpaceX’s seventh launch of the yr up to now and its third from the Golden State. Onboard is a batch of twenty-two Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which is able to be a part of the constellation of greater than 5,300 at the moment on orbit.
Spaceflight Now could have stay protection of the mission about half-hour previous to liftoff.
The primary stage booster supporting this mission, tail quantity B1063 within the SpaceX fleet, might be making its sixteenth launch and touchdown on this flight. It beforehand supported the launch of NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Check (DART) spacecraft the Transporter-7 rideshare mission and 10 Starlink flights in its previous.
About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1080 is about to land on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Nonetheless Love You,’ which is positioned within the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California. This would be the eightieth booster touchdown for OCISLY and the 208th droneship touchdown thus far for SpaceX.
In the meantime, the corporate continues to observe the progress of the Ax-3 mission, which launched from NASA’s Kennedy House Middle Thursday afternoon. 4 astronauts are flying aboard Crew Dragon Freedom to dock to the Worldwide House Station on Saturday morning.
