12.12.2023
SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink satellites from Florida Dec. 12
Liftoff is scheduled for 11:02 p.m. ET Tuesday night (Dec. 12).
SpaceX could give us a launch doubleheader on Tuesday night (Dec. 12).
The company aims to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday atop a Falcon 9 rocket, during a nearly four-hour window that opens at 11:02 p.m. EST (0402 GMT on Dec. 12). You can watch it live via SpaceX's account on X (formerly known as Twitter), beginning at about five minutes before the window open.
The 23 Starlink satellites, meanwhile, are scheduled to deploy from the Falcon 9's upper stage into low Earth orbit about 65.5 minutes after liftoff.
Starlink is SpaceX's internet megaconstellation, which currently consists of more than 5,000 operational spacecraft.
The enormous network has grown a great deal over the past year. SpaceX has launched more than 90 orbital missions in 2023 so far, and most of them have been dedicated to building out the Starlink constellation.
Quelle: SC
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Update: 19.12.2023
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On Monday, December 18 at 11:01 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This was the third flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-7, CRS-29, and now one Starlink mission.
Quelle: SpaceX