SpaceX targeting Monday rush-hour Falcon 9 launch on Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral

Rain, wind and thunderstorms scrubbed SpaceX's Friday rocket launch attempt, then held up a Saturday retry by nearly four hours before the Falcon 9 took flight. But sunny skies should prevail for the company's next mission Monday on the Space Coast.

Though SpaceX has yet to make an announcement. Federal Aviation Administration and National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency navigational warnings show a 4½-hour launch window for the Starlink 6-46 mission will open Monday from 5 p.m. to 9:31 p.m. EDT.

Monday's evening-rush-hour Falcon 9 rocket liftoff will presumably occur from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Saturday's storm-delayed nighttime launch occurred from SpaceX's other Florida facility: pad 39A at NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center.

The National Weather Service forecast calls for mostly sunny skies Monday at the Cape, a high near 76 and east wind around 15 mph, gusting as high as 20 mph.

Quelle: Florida Today

----

Update: 26.03.2024

STARLINK MISSION

On Monday, March 25 at 7:42 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 eighth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER, USSF-124, and now five Starlink missions.