SpaceX to launch Falcon 9 rocket booster for document twenty fourth time – Spaceflight Now

Replace 8:00 p.m. EST (0100 UTC): Including details about the Falcon 9 booster and updating the T-0 liftoff time.

SpaceX is making ready for the primary of three deliberate Falcon 9 rocket launches over the following two days, which embody two Starlink flights and a buyer mission.

Notably, the primary mission within the trio, Starlink 6-70, will see the launch of a primary stage booster making its twenty fourth flight, a brand new launch document.

Liftoff from House Launch Advanced 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral House Drive Station is ready for no sooner than 5:13 a.m. EST (1013 UTC) on Wednesday, Dec. 4.

Spaceflight Now can have reside protection starting about an hour previous to liftoff.



Heading into the launch window, the forty fifth Climate Squadron forecast pretty pristine situations. Launch climate officers stated there needs to be a higher than 95 p.c probability of favorable climate at liftoff, citing no particular meteorological issues.

“Cool and breezy situations are anticipated all through the start and center of this week as excessive stress dominates previous to a weak chilly entrance passage this Friday,” the written forecasts said. “Chilly northerly air flowing over the Gulf Stream is predicted to drive marine stratocumulus improvement Wednesday morning, which can method the coast however poses no menace to the first launch try.”

The SpaceX first stage booster supporting this mission, tail quantity B1067, will cement its place because the launch chief when it lifts off for a twenty fourth time. It beforehand supported 4 missions to the Worldwide House Station (Crew-3, Crew-4, CRS-22 and CRS-25), the European Fee’s Galileo L13 mission and 12 earlier Starlink flights.

The Starlink 6-70 mission will take the Falcon 9 rocket on a south-easterly trajectory. Slightly greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1067 will landing on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned within the Atlantic Ocean.

If profitable, this can mark the 88th booster touchdown on ASOG and the 378th booster touchdown thus far.

SpaceX is ready to observe up the Starlink 6-70 mission with the launch of the Starlink 9-14 mission from Vandenberg House Drive Base Wednesday night time and the launch of the SiriusXM-9 satellites from NASA’s Kennedy House Heart late Thursday morning.