SpaceX plans to launch 22 more Starlink internet satellites from California early Monday morning (November 20).
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will arrive at Vandenberg Space Force Base during a four-hour window starting Monday at 1:33 a.m. ET (06:33 GMT, 10:33 p.m. California local time on November 19). It is scheduled to be launched from
You can watch the action live via SpaceX X’s account (Formerly known as Twitter). Coverage will begin approximately 5 minutes before the launch.
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If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth about eight and a half minutes after liftoff and make a vertical landing aboard the unmanned aircraft carrier Course I Still Love You, which will be deployed in the Pacific Ocean. It turns out.
According to SpaceX, this will be the 15th launch and landing of the rocket’s first stage. Mission description. This flight resumption includes nine other Starlink launches and the Double Asteroid Redirection Test, a NASA mission that successfully crashed the spacecraft into an asteroid in September 2022.
Meanwhile, the 22 Starlink satellites will deploy from the Falcon 9 upper stage into low Earth orbit approximately 62.5 minutes after liftoff.
Monday morning’s launch caps off a very busy weekend for SpaceX. The company also launched 23 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Friday night (Nov. 17).
And on Saturday, SpaceX launched the second-ever test flight of Starship, the giant next-generation system it’s developing to help humans reach the moon and Mars. Starship initially flew smoothly, reaching a maximum altitude of about 91 miles (148 kilometers), but its mission ended about eight minutes after liftoff, resulting in an “unscheduled rapid dismantling,” SpaceX’s term for an explosion. ‘ was held.
Monday morning’s launch was originally targeted for Sunday, but the company scrapped the plan after propellant loading began.