SpaceX to launch 23 Starlink broadband satellites from Florida tonight
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends 20 Starlink satellites to space from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Oct. 15, 2024.
(Image credit: SpaceX)
SpaceX plans to launch 23 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida's Space Coast this evening (Oct. 22).
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 23 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station tonight, during a more than three-hour-long window that opens at 6:56 p.m. EDT (2256 GMT).
SpaceX will livestream the launch on X, beginning about five minutes before liftoff.
If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff, landing on the drone ship "A Shortfall of Gravitas" in the Atlantic Ocean.
It will be the 18th launch and landing for this particular booster, and its 13th Starlink mission, according to a SpaceX mission description.
The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, will haul the Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO), deploying them there about 65 minutes after liftoff.
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