SpaceX will launch 21 more of its Starlink web satellites to orbit tonight (Sept. 3), and you may watch the motion live.
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Kennedy Space Center tonight at 7:25 p.m. EDT (2325 GMT).
Watch the liftoff live here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the corporate. Coverage is anticipated to start five minutes before launch.
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If all goes in keeping with plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will come back to Earth safely: It would touch down about 8.5 minutes after liftoff on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions, which can be stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.
It would be the tenth launch and landing for this particular booster, in keeping with a SpaceX mission description.
The Falcon 9’s upper stage will carry on flying, eventually deploying the 21 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO) about 65 minutes after liftoff.
Today is an enormous day for SpaceX. The corporate also plans to bring home the 4 astronauts of its Crew-6 mission, who’ve been on the International Space Station (ISS) since March.
Crew-6’s Crew Dragon capsule, named Endeavour, is scheduled to depart the ISS just a little after 7 a.m. EDT (1100 GMT) today. It would splash down within the ocean off the Florida coast at around 12:17 a.m. EDT (0417 GMT). You’ll be able to watch these milestones here at Space.com.