SpaceX aims for Sunday-Monday-Tuesday rocket launch tripleheader from Cape Canaveral

Three SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch windows are scheduled to open back-to-back-to-back on Sunday, Monday and Tuesday from Florida's Space Coast, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory indicates.

SpaceX has yet to officially announce this trio of missions — which would become the unparalleled 77th, 78th and 79th orbital rocket launches during a single calendar year from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA's Kennedy Space Center.

"That number is going to continue to grow. We'll see. I know we talked ... 100 is kind of the next milestone. We'll see if we get to that this year," Space Florida President and CEO Rob Long said during Thursday's board of directors meeting at Orlando International Airport.

"It'll be a little tight to get to 100 this year, but it wouldn't shock me if we did," Long said.

First up, SpaceX is targeting Sunday to launch its next Starlink mission deploying internet-beaming satellites into low-Earth orbit, a Federal Aviation Administration operations plan advisory shows.

Launch window for that Starlink 6-69 mission: 4:28-8:59 p.m. from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9 will ascend along a southeasterly path, then target landing on a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

Quelle: Florida Today

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Update: 12.11.2024

STARLINK MISSION

On Monday, November 11 at 4:28 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.

This was the 12th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched which previously launched Euclid, Axiom-2, Axiom-3, Cygnus NG-21, SES 24, CRS-30, and now six Starlink missions.