SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is getting ready for a close to dawn Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday.

The Starlink 10-27 mission will ship 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft will deploy from the rocket’s higher stage a bit greater than an hour after the rocket clears the pad at Space Launch Complex 40.

SpaceX is concentrating on liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 UTC). The rocket will head away from Florida’s Space Coast on a north-easterly trajectory.

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The forty fifth Weather Squadron forecast a 90 % likelihood for favorable climate through the Sunday launch window. Meteorologists mentioned there was only a small likelihood for interference from cumulus clouds due to “below average rain chances” this weekend and early subsequent week.

“Dry air in the mid-levels will continue to limit daily lightning chances,” launch climate officers mentioned. “Isolated coastal showers are likely during both launch windows, but will only be a distant concern for the flight through portion of the Cumulus Cloud Rule due to their expected low-topped nature.”

SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity B1085 to launch the Starlink 10-27 mission. This might be its eleventh flight following missions like NASA’s Crew-9, Fram2 and Firefly Aerospace’s Blue Ghost Mission 1.

Roughly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, SpaceX will try to land B1085 on its droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas. A profitable touchdown could be the a hundred and twenty fifth landing on this vessel and the 508th booster touchdown so far for SpaceX.