SpaceX continues to push the tempo of its launch cadence because it readies one other Falcon 9 rocket for flight on Friday night. If profitable, the mission will mark SpaceX’s 14th launch of the month, a brand new business file for launch.
In fact, the milestone could be including to the file set earlier this week, when SpaceX launched its thirteenth Falcon 9 to ship the European House Company’s EarthCARE satellite tv for pc as much as orbit. Liftoff of this newest mission, Starlink 6-64 from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station, is about for 7:47 p.m. EDT (2347 UTC).
Spaceflight Now could have dwell protection starting about an hour previous to liftoff.
The primary stage booster for this mission, tail quantity B1076 within the SpaceX fleet, will probably be launching for a 14th time. It beforehand launched missions like SpaceX’s twenty sixth Business Resupply Providers (CRS-26) Dragon flight to the Worldwide House Station, NASA’s TEMPO payload onboard the Intelsat 40e satellite tv for pc and 7 batches of Starlink satellites.
A bit greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1076 will land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ If profitable, this would be the 73rd touchdown for ASOG and the 315th booster touchdown for SpaceX.
The file setting launch comes on the tail finish of every week of historic milestones for SpaceX. Could 25 was the twelfth anniversary of the Dragon spacecraft turning into the primary personal spacecraft to dock with the ISS. Could 30 was the fourth anniversary of the launch of the Demo-2 mission, marking the return of human spaceflight to American soil within the wake of the House Shuttle’s retirement in 2011.
SpaceX is getting ready for 2 extra crewed missions over the course of the summer time: Polaris Daybreak and Crew-9.
Immediately marks the fourth anniversary of Falcon 9 launching @NASA’s Demo-2 mission to the @space_station, returning human spaceflight to the US pic.twitter.com/jzwyCwam3l
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) May 30, 2024
