SpaceX is scheduled to launch 21 more Starlink internet satellites into orbit tonight (September 3), and you can watch it happen live.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Kennedy Space Center in Florida tonight at 7:25 pm EDT (11:25 pm Japan time).
Watch the launch live or in person on Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX. via company. Coverage is scheduled to begin five minutes before launch.
Related: Starlink satellite train: how to see and track it in the night sky
If all goes as planned, Falcon 9’s first stage will return safely to Earth. Just Read the Instructions, a drone ship deployed in the Atlantic Ocean, will land approximately eight and a half minutes after launch.
Officials said this was the booster’s 10th launch and landing. SpaceX mission description.
Falcon 9’s upper stage will continue to fly, eventually deploying 21 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) about 65 minutes after liftoff.
Today is a big day for SpaceX. The company also plans to bring home the four astronauts from the Crew-6 mission, who have been on the International Space Station (ISS) since March.
Crew-6’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavor, is scheduled to depart the ISS just after 7 a.m. EDT (11 a.m. GMT) today. It is expected to splash into the ocean off the coast of Florida around 12:17 a.m. EDT (4:17 p.m. Japan time). These milestones can be viewed on Space.com.