SpaceX plans to launch yet one more batch of its Starlink web satellites from Florida’s Area Coast early Tuesday morning (Nov. 26).
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to carry off from NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle on Tuesday at 1:08 a.m. EST (0608 GMT).
SpaceX will webcast the motion by way of its X account, starting about 5 minutes earlier than launch.
If all goes based on plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff, touching down on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” within the Atlantic Ocean.
It will likely be the fifteenth launch and touchdown for this specific booster, based on a SpaceX mission description. Ten of its 14 flights so far have been Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, will carry the 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, deploying them there about 65 minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX has launched 116 Falcon 9 missions up to now in 2024, and 80 of them have been dedicated to constructing out the Starlink community. 4 of these Starlink flights have occurred previously seven days.
The Starlink megaconstellation — the most important ever assembled — at the moment consists of almost 6,700 lively spacecraft, according to satellite tv for pc tracker and astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell.
