The next batch of Starlink satellites for SpaceX’s space-based internet service is due to ride a Falcon 9 rocket into orbit Monday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Liftoff is scheduled during a four-hour window with the first launch opportunity at 11:01 p.m. EST (0401 UTC). There are seven back up launch times, with the last opportunity of the night falling at 2:58 a.m. EST (0758 UTC). Meteorologists with the 45th Weather Squadron are predicting good weather for launch with a 90-percent chance of acceptable conditions at the opening of the launch window, which falls to 80 percent by the end of the window.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage starting about an hour before liftoff.
The Falcon 9 first stage will make a landing on the drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” about eight and a half minutes after launch. The droneship, a converted ocean-going barge, is one of three operated by SpaceX and will be stationed about 420 miles (620km) downrange, East of the Bahamas. The two halves of the payload fairing will parachute to a splashdown a little further downrange where they will be scooped up by SpaceX’s support vessel “Bob”.
If all goes according to plan the Starlink satellites will be deployed from the second-stage of the Falcon 9 a little over an hour into the mission. A successful flight will bring the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 5,514.
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