SpaceX plans to launch 24 extra of its Starlink web satellites from Florida’s House Coast as we speak (Nov. 10).
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to carry off from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station as we speak throughout a four-hour window that opens at 4:28 p.m. EST (2028 GMT).
SpaceX will webcast the launch reside by way of X, starting about 5 minutes earlier than liftoff.
If all goes to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come again to Earth for a vertical landing about eight minutes after liftoff on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” which will likely be stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.
It is going to be the twelfth launch and touchdown for this specific booster, in line with a SpaceX mission description. 5 of its earlier 11 flights had been Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, will proceed carrying the 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), deploying them there about 65 minutes after liftoff.
Immediately’s launch will observe on the heels of one other Starlink mission, which lifted off from California’s Vandenberg House Pressure Base early on Saturday morning (Nov. 9).
SpaceX has now launched 106 Falcon 9 missions in 2024. Almost 70% of them have been devoted to constructing out the Starlink megaconstellation, which at the moment consists of more than 6,500 active spacecraft.
