Brevard Space Coast Launch Site, SpaceX ULA NASA rocket
Let’s take a quick look at which rockets are launched from the various Brevard Launch Sites.
SpaceX is targeting Monday for the latest launch slot in a series of late-night rocket launches to expand its growing Starlink high-speed internet satellite fleet.
Although SpaceX has not yet confirmed the existence of the Starlink 6-30 mission, various navigational warnings indicate that its 4.5-hour launch window will open at 11pm ET on Monday and extend beyond midnight to 3am on Tuesday. It shows that it will continue until 1:31.
Further details:
- about: SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket will launch Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
- position: Launch Complex 40.
- Orbit: Southeast.
- Local sonic boom: no.
- Booster landing: A drone ship floating in the Atlantic Ocean.
A similar SpaceX Starlink window led to a launch Wednesday at 2:47 a.m. EST. The night owl mission marks the 65th orbital launch from the Space Coast so far this year, extending the ongoing annual record for 2023.
The day before the launch, SpaceX announced that its high-speed Internet network, Starlink, is now available throughout Guam and the Northern Mariana Islands in the Western Pacific.
“Since the first license to operate the Starlink Generation 1 network was granted in March 2018, SpaceX has rapidly deployed satellites to bring internet to the most difficult-to-reach locations in the United States and abroad. ” the company announced in February.
As of Saturday, SpaceX has launched 5,445 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit since May 2019, according to Jonathan McDowell, an astrophysicist at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Of those, 5,041 continue to function in orbit, according to McDowell’s records.
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On Monday night, National Weather Service meteorologists predicted a cold front would cause temperatures at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to soar to around 57 degrees, with mostly cloudy skies and north-northwest winds gusting 16 to 15 mph. Expect.
High temperatures on Tuesday are predicted to reach 68 degrees only on military installations.
For the latest schedule updates at the Cape, please visit: floridatoday.com/launchschedule.
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