SpaceX will launch 47 Starlink satellites
- June 22, 2023
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SpaceX plans to launch another large batch of Starlink Internet satellites early Thursday morning, June 22 (June 22), and you can watch the event live. A Falcon 9
SpaceX plans to launch another large batch of Starlink Internet satellites early Thursday morning, June 22 (June 22), and you can watch the event live. A Falcon 9
SpaceX plans to launch another large batch of Starlink Internet satellites early Thursday morning, June 22 (June 22), and you can watch the event live. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 47 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to take off from Vandenberg Space Station, California, at 3:19 PM ET (07:19 GMT; 12:19 local time) on Thursday.
Watch live here, courtesy of SpaceX or directly through the company. The broadcast will begin approximately five minutes before kick-off. If all goes according to plan, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth approximately eight minutes and 45 seconds after launch. He will board the SpaceX’s Of course I Still Love You drone ship, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.
SpaceX wrote in its mission statement that this will be the third launch and landing of this particular rocket ship. Falcon 9’s upper stage will continue to hoist 47 Starlink satellites, finally placing them in low Earth orbit about 19 minutes after takeoff. According to astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell, SpaceX has launched approximately 4,600 Starlink satellites to date, of which more than 4,200 are currently operational.
And the broadband mega-constellation will continue to grow in the future. SpaceX has permission to deploy 12,000 Starlink satellites, and the company has applied for permission to launch another 30,000 spacecraft.
If all goes according to plan, Thursday’s Starlink mission will be the first of morning’s twin space flights: A Delta IV Heavy United Launch Alliance (ULA) rocket is set to launch a covert satellite for the US National Intelligence Agency from Cape Canaveral, Florida. Space Force Station is just minutes later, 3:25 am ET (07:25 GMT).
Source: Port Altele
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