4.06.2024
SpaceX to launch new Starlink group on Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night from Cape Canaveral
SpaceX plans to launch its next batch of Starlink satellites Tuesday night, according to Geospatial Navigational Warning and a Federal Aviation Administration warning.
The launch window runs from 8:04 p.m. until 11:58 p.m. EDT. While SpaceX tends to launch earlier in the allotted launch window, various factors − such as weather − play a part in the final timing.
This will be the first launch of June from the Cape, and the 42nd launch of the year.
The Falcon 9 rocket will lift off from Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40, and travel in a southeast trajectory. Eight and a half minutes following liftoff, the Falcon 9 first stage booster will land on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. Local sonic booms are not expected.
As SpaceX has yet to confirm this mission, the identity of the booster is unknown.
However, the FAA lists this mission as Starlink 8-5, which would make it the fifth batch made in the group eight Starlink satellites. Until this mission, SpaceX had been launching group six satellites from the Space Coast.
Quelle: Florida Today
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Update: 5.06.2024
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SpaceX launches 20 Starlink satellites, including 13 direct-to-cell craft (video)
Liftoff occurred at 10:16 p.m. ET on Tuesday (June 4).
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites on Tuesday night (June 4), including 13 that can beam service directly to smartphones.
The Starlink spacecraft took flight atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida tonight at 10:16 p.m. EDT (0216 GMT on June 5).
The Falcon 9's first stage returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch as planned, landing on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the 20th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. That's just one shy of the company's reuse record, which it set on a Starlink launch last month.
The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 20 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, where they were deployed about 52 minutes after liftoff.
So far in 2024, SpaceX has launched 58 orbital missions, 41 of which have been dedicated to building out the huge and ever-growing Starlink megaconstellation.
SpaceX is gearing up for a much more dramatic launch this week — the fourth test flight of its Starship megarocket. That highly anticipated mission is scheduled to lift off from the company's Starbase site in South Texas on Thursday morning (June 6).
Quelle: SC
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Update: 8.06.2024
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On Friday, June 7 at 9:56 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This was the 16th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and now 12 Starlink missions.
Quelle: SpaceX