SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Area Power Station Monday night with 23 Starlink satellites on board. This mission will mark the a hundred and seventy fifth launch for SpaceX from its workhorse pad so far.
Liftoff of the Starlink 6-46 mission is about for 7:42 p.m. EDT (2342 UTC) from Area Launch Advanced-40 (SLC-40). This may also be the twentieth mission launching from Florida in 2024.
Spaceflight Now can have dwell protection starting about one hour previous to liftoff.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail quantity B1078 within the SpaceX fleet, might be launching for an eighth time. It beforehand launched NASA’s Crew-6 mission, SES’ O3b mPOWER 3 &4 satellites, the USSF-124 mission and 4 Starlink flights.
About eight-and-a-half minutes after liftoff, B1078 will land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ This would be the 62nd touchdown on ASOG and the 228th booster touchdown so far.
SpaceX’s Starlink constellation will develop to five,680 satellites on orbit, in keeping with numbers tracked by Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist and astronomer on the Harvard-Smithsonian Heart for Astrophysics. Greater than 6,000 Starlink satellites have launched so far.
