Replace 7:50 p.m. EDT: SpaceX adjusted the deliberate launch time.
SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station early Friday morning to kick off a weekend that would see three missions for the corporate.
The Starlink 6-47 mission will liftoff no sooner than 5:12 a.m. EDT (0912 UTC) from Area Launch Advanced 40 (SLC-40).
Spaceflight Now could have dwell protection starting about an hour previous to liftoff.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission will land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. This would be the sixty fourth booster touchdown on ASOG and the 292nd booster touchdown to this point.
The mission comes as SpaceX is getting ready for 2 different Falcon 9 launches that would happen over the weekend: a Starlink mission from Vandenberg Area Drive Base, Starlink 8-1, and a rideshare mission from NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle referred to as “Bandwagon-1.”
The latter is the primary of its variety for the corporate and can ship a set of small satellites to a mid-inclination orbit. Passengers embody Capella Area’s Acadia-4 satellite tv for pc, HawkEye 360’s clusters 8 and 9 (six satellites complete) and iQPS’s QPS-SAR-7 or “Tsukuyomi-2” satellite tv for pc.
On Wednesday, SpaceX additionally introduced a brand new step in the direction of for its subsequent astronaut mission, Polaris Daybreak. The Crew Dragon spacecraft named “Resilience” is getting ready to start vacuum chamber testing, which can “will recreate anticipated situations in area by decreasing and elevating the automobile’s pressures to make sure Dragon performs as anticipated each throughout and after the primary business spacewalk,” in line with SpaceX.
The Polaris Daybreak mission is anticipated to launch someday over the summer time of 2024.
The Polaris Daybreak Dragon is headed to hoover chamber testing! SpaceX groups have a good time Dragon’s departure with @rookisaacman, @KiddPoteet, @Gillis_SarahE, and @annawmenon forward of launching to orbit this summer time pic.twitter.com/WFjp7pKK7B
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) April 3, 2024
