SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 flight from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is getting ready for yet one more Falcon 9 launch to shut out the week on the Cape. The Starlink 6-52 mission will add 23 extra satellites to the rising low Earth orbit constellation.

Liftoff from Area Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station is ready for six:40 p.m. EDT (2240 UTC). The forty fifth Climate Squadron forecast a 90 % probability of favorable circumstances at launch.

Spaceflight Now may have stay protection starting about one hour previous to liftoff.

The Falcon 9 first stage booster for this mission, tail quantity B1080, sill be making its seventh flight on this mission. It beforehand flew the Ax-2 and Ax-3 personal astronaut missions on behalf of Axiom Area along with launching the Euclid observatory for the European Area Company.

Just a little greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1080 will land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ This would be the 66th touchdown on ASOG and the 299th Falcon booster touchdown thus far.