SpaceX to launch 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX began the month of March with a profitable Falcon 9 launch from California and goals to replicate that in Florida Sunday night time.

The Starlink 10-41 mission will see the corporate return to Starlink flights heading off on a north-easterly trajectory, following a run of largely south-easterly trajectory missions for the higher a part of 4 months.

Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 9:56:40 pm EST (0256:40 UTC). This will likely be SpaceX’s twenty second mission of the yr supporting its broadband web satellite tv for pc constellation in low Earth orbit.

Spaceflight Now may have reside protection starting about an hour prior to liftoff.



The forty fifth Weather Squadron forecast a 90 p.c probability for favorable climate throughout the Sunday night time launch window, citing a small probability for interference from cumulus clouds.

SpaceX will launch the mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity 1078. This will likely be its twenty sixth flight after launching earlier missions, like Crew-6, (*29*) Lima and USSF-124.

Less than 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1078 will goal a touchdown on the droneship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ positioned within the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina.

If profitable, this would be the 152nd touchdown on this vessel and the 580th booster touchdown for SpaceX to date.

Following the Sunday morning launch of 25 Starlink satellites, SpaceX deployed a complete of 566 of its satellites to date this yr.