![]() ![]() "What I find strange about this flight is that normally I feel super stressed out the day before this time I don't," SpaceX CEO Elon Musk said in a news teleconference yesterday (Feb. Two will set down on land, while the center stage, which will travel further, will land on a floating barge. The Falcon Heavy is an extreme version of this setup, built to lift more and go further: What is essentially three Falcon 9 first stages boost the rocket into space, and SpaceX will attempt to land all three of them. The rocket's first stages often land to be reused in future launches. SpaceX's current Falcon 9 rocket launches cargo to the International Space Station and lofts satellites into orbit. Weather conditions are currently at 80 percent "go" for today, and 70 percent for a backup launch time tomorrow, according to the 45th Space Wing's Weather Squadron, which monitors weather for air and space operations at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station and Kennedy Space Center. You can watch the launch live here on, courtesy of SpaceX, beginning at 1:10 p.m. The launch window stretches from 1:30 to 4 p.m. 6) from the historic Pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Journalism like this takes time and resources. Please support it with a subscription here.CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla.-SpaceX's giant new rocket, the Falcon Heavy, is set for its risky first test launch today (Feb. ![]() įor the latest, visit /launchschedule.Ĭontact Jamie Groh at and follow her on Twitter at is important to us and that's why we're working to bring you top coverage of the industry and Florida launches. ![]() Look for FLORIDA TODAY's live launch coverage of that mission to begin 90 minutes before liftoff at. That honor still belongs to NASA's Gemini program, which launched two separate vehicles in a roughly 90-minute window in 1966. Had back-to-back launches happened Sunday, it would have been a notable achievement, but not a record-breaker for fastest turnaround between two Florida missions. The resupply flight sending thousands of pounds of cargo and science experiments to crew aboard the ISS will mark SpaceX's 28th cargo run for NASA and the 28th mission to fly from Florida in 2023. That mission is slated to fly from Kennedy Space Center's pad 39A. EDT Monday, June 5, for the next mission carrying cargo to the International Space Station. Rocket launch schedule: Upcoming Florida launches and landings When's the next launch?Īfter the scrub of Sunday's second launch, NASA and SpaceX teams re-targeted 11:47 a.m. Grounded indefinitely: Boeing's Starliner crewed test flight suffers more delays because of safety concerns The company expects to launch tens of thousands of the satellites to service residential and business customers on every continent, as well as provide in-motion service for boats, planes, and recreational vehicles. Starlink customers number more than a million, but SpaceX is nowhere near done building out its orbital network. Sunday's mission features 22 of the second-generation model of the satellites called "V2 Minis." The company's near-global constellation operates about 340 miles above Earth to deliver high-speed connectivity services to rural and hard-to-reach destinations around the globe. Launch doubleheader: SpaceX will try to launch two Falcon 9 rockets from Florida on Sunday What was the payload?Īll told, SpaceX has launched over 4,500 Starlink internet-beaming satellites. About eight minutes after liftoff, the first-stage booster targeted SpaceX's "Just Read the Instructions" drone ship for a landing in the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, SpaceX was setting up to launch another less than four hours later from Kennedy Space Center, but teams scrubbed that mission due to high winds in the Atlantic recovery zone where a drone ship was waiting to host the Falcon 9 rocket's landing.Īfter flying a southeast trajectory from Launch Complex 40 and threading between Florida and the Bahamas, the 230-foot rocket carried 22 second-generation Starlink satellites to orbit. EDT, a Falcon 9 roared to life at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to mark the 27th launch from the Space Coast this year. SpaceX kicked off Sunday with the first of two Falcon 9 missions slated to launch from Florida just hours apart, but the second couldn't get off the ground due to weather conditions in the Atlantic Ocean.Īt 8:20 a.m. ![]() EDT, Monday, June 5, from Kennedy Space Center in Florida followed by a booster landing on a drone ship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean a short time later. Update: Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket and uncrewed Dragon vessel at 11:47 a.m. ![]()
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