SpaceX Starlink launch may happen Friday night during Brevard high school football games

Will Brevard County high school football spectators — including those watching rivalry games like the Cocoa-Rockledge Barbecue Bowl and Eau Gallie vs. Melbourne — get to see a Falcon 9 rocket streak across the sky?

Stay tuned. SpaceX is targeting a Friday night window for its next launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, navigational warnings show.

SpaceX has yet to officially announce this upcoming launch. But a Federal Aviation Administration advisory outlines a Starlink 6-26 mission launch window extending between 6:23 and 10:54 p.m. EDT Friday.

National Weather Service meteorologists predict a 20% chance of showers Friday night at the Cape under mostly cloudy skies, with a low around 70. An east-northeast wind should clock in around 15 mph, gusting as high as 20 mph.

The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron has yet to release a launch forecast. This Falcon 9 liftoff would mark the record-breaking 60th orbital launch this year from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Kennedy Space Center.

About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may launch the company's latest batch of Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
Launch window: From 6:23 to 10:54 p.m. EDT Friday.
Location: Launch Complex 40.
Trajectory: Southeast.
Local sonic boom: No.
Booster landing: Drone ship out on the Atlantic Ocean.
Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff

Quelle: Florida Today

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Update: 4.11.2023

STARLINK MISSION

On Friday, November 3 at 8:37 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

This was the 18th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew Demo-2, ANASIS-11, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3, and now 13 Starlink missions.