SpaceX late-night rocket launch: When to watch Falcon 9 littoff in New Smyrna, Daytona, Oak Hill
- by The Daytona Beach News-Journal
- Jul 26, 2024
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Daytona Beach News-Journal
Get your coffee or favorite caffeinated drink ready − there may be a very late-night, or possibly early morning, rocket launch.
The familiar sight of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket has been absent from Fun Coast skies the past two weeks — but the Federal Aviation Administration has granted the company permission to return to flight amid its ongoing anomaly investigation.
SpaceX is targeting 12:21 a.m. Saturday, July 27, for its next Falcon 9 mission. The 230-foot rocket will launch 23 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit from launch pad 39A at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in neighboring Brevard County.
FAA officials had grounded the Falcon 9 rocket fleet while SpaceX studied why a second-stage engine failed following a July 11 launch from Vandenburg Space Force Base in California. The engine suffered a liquid oxygen leak — and 20 Starlink satellites got deployed into a lower-than-intended orbit and later burned up in the atmosphere.
SpaceX announced the findings of its engineering review, blaming a liquid oxygen leak that developed within the insulation around the upper-stage engine. In tandem, the FAA granted approval for the Falcon 9 to return to flight and announced that "no public safety issues were involved in the anomaly."
Below is information on the latest launch along with links to a weather radar and beach webcams. If there are changes to this launch, this story will be updated.
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