22 extra V2 mini Starlink satellites are set to launch atop a Falcon 9 on Sunday, August sixth. The launch is presently scheduled for 9:00 p.m. ET (01:00 UTC on August 7) from Area Launch Complicated 40 at Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station in Florida.
SpaceX is maintaining with its excessive cadence of launches, with this launch coming simply three days after their final launch from SLC-40, which was the profitable Galaxy-37/Horizons-4 mission.
Focusing on Sunday, August 6 for Falcon 9’s launch of twenty-two @Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Florida → https://t.co/bJFjLCiTbK
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) August 4, 2023
This batch of Starlinks, Group 6-8, might be launched on a South Easterly trajectory and right into a 43-degree orbital inclination with deliberate separation from the 2nd stage simply over an hour after lift-off. A profitable launch will carry the whole variety of Starlink satellites launched to 4,903 of which there are presently 3,814 of their operational orbits.
The Falcon 9 tasked with this mission is Booster 1078, and it will likely be making its fourth flight since its debut in March 2023. B1078 has launched the Crew-6 mission for NASA, O3b mPOWER communications satellite tv for pc, and 1 Starlink mission.
Following stage separation, B1078 will try touchdown on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas about 8 minutes after launch. The droneship is stationed simply East of the Bahamas.
One factor that might play a spoiler for the launch is the climate. The forty fifth Climate Squadron is predicting a 70% probability of unacceptable climate on the scheduled launch time.
Nevertheless, SpaceX has 4 extra probabilities to launch, and climate possibilities enhance to an 80% probability of acceptable climate.
If climate or technical points forestall the launch, SpaceX has one other alternative the subsequent day with 5 launch alternatives between 8:35 p.m. ET (00:35 UTC August 8) and 11:57 p.m. ET (3:57 UTC).
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