SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center – Spaceflight Now

Update Nov. 14, 11:40 p.m. EST (0440 UTC)

SpaceX headed into the weekend with a pair of launches deliberate for Florida’s Space Coast with each supporting the corporate’s Starlink broadband satellite tv for pc web constellation.

First as much as bat was Starlink 6-89, which flew from Launch Complex 39A at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center. Liftoff occurred at 10:08 p.m. EST (0308 UTC) with the rocket flying on a south-easterly trajectory.



With each this and the second mission, Starlink 6-85, scheduled to launch inside the similar four-hour window of alternative, the forty fifth Weather Squadron issued similar forecasts for each missions, citing a higher than 95 p.c probability for favorable climate at liftoff. After just a few days of notable photo voltaic exercise, launch climate officers dropped the potential for photo voltaic impacts all the way down to a average danger on a low-moderate-high scale.

The Starlink 6-89 mission used the Falcon 9 booster with the tail quantity B1092, which flew for an eighth time. Its earlier missions embrace CRS-32, GPS III SV08 and NROL-69.

About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1092 carried out a touchdown on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’, positioned out within the Atlantic Ocean to the east of The Bahamas. This was the 132nd touchdown on this vessel and the 533rd booster touchdown so far for SpaceX.