CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX is preparing for another Starlink launch, as nearly 30 satellites are expected to go up early Sunday morning.
What You Need To Know
- The Falcon 9 rocket will send up Starlink 10-27 mission
The Falcon 9 rocket will send up Starlink 10-27 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, stated SpaceX.
The launch window will open from 5:20 a.m. ET to 9:20 a.m. ET.
The 45th Weather Squadron gave a 90% chance of good liftoff conditions, with the only concerns being the cumulus cloud rule.
Find out more about the weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch.
Going up
This is the 11th mission for the Falcon 9’s first-stage booster B1085. It has had a dozen missions before this launch:
So far, it has launched two crewed missions and a lunar one.
- Crew-9 mission
- Starlink 6-77 mission
- Starlink 10-5 mission
- RRT-1
- Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R
- Fram2 mission
- Starlink 6-93 mission
- SXM-10 mission
- Eumetsat MTG-S1 mission
- Starlink 10-20 mission
After the stage separation, the first-stage rocket will land on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas that will be in the Atlantic Ocean.
About the mission
The 28 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit to join the thousands already there.
Once deployed and in their orbit, they will provide internet service to many parts of Earth.
Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics’ Dr. Jonathan McDowell has been recording Starlink satellites.
Before this launch, McDowell documented the following:
- 8,427 are in orbit
- 7,576 are in operational orbit
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