SpaceX Bandwagon-4 sonic booms might startle sleepers Sunday morning

Sonic booms from a descending SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket booster ought to rattle communities close to the Cape throughout early morning hours Sunday, Nov. 2.

SpaceX’s Bandwagon-4 launch window extends from 1:00 a.m. to 2:03 a.m. Sunday, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory signifies. The Falcon 9 will carry off from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Expect sonic booms roughly eight minutes later. During SpaceX’s April 21 nighttime Bandwagon-3 mission, the rocket’s first-stage booster did likewise whereas descending to landing at Landing Zone 2 on the Space Force set up. The touchdown zone is situated simply north of Cape Canaveral Lighthouse and Blue Origin’s New Glenn amenities at Launch Complex 36.

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Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch protection ought to kick off about 90 minutes earlier than liftoff at floridatoday.com/area.

SpaceX’s Bandwagon missions function “rideshare” journeys into orbit for smallsat corporations and different area ventures. Bandwagon-3 carried ADD’s 425Sat-3, Tomorrow Companies Inc.’s Tomorrow-S7 and Atmos Space Cargo’s PHOENIX re-entry capsule.

The SpaceX web site advertises rideshare prices as little as $325,000 to launch a 50-kilogram payload right into a sun-synchronous polar orbit.

Looking forward on the Eastern Range calendar, one other SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday, Nov. 5, from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Launch window: 7:08 p.m. to 11:51 p.m.

Wednesday’s manifest additionally consists of United Launch Alliance’s Atlas V rocket launch carrying a Viasat communications satellite tv for pc. That 44-minute window opens at 10:24 p.m. from Launch Complex 41 on the army set up

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Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1

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