SpaceX is about to launch a brand new batch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (June 4).
A Falcon 9 rocket will launch 22 of SpaceX’s latest “V2 Mini” web satellites for its Starlink communications constellation Sunday from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Launch is scheduled for 5:56 a.m. EDT (0956 GMT).
SpaceX will aim to get well the Falcon 9 first stage booster by landing it on the drone ship named A Shortfall of Gravitas out within the Atlantic Ocean. You may watch the motion live here at Space.com when the time comes courtesy of SpaceX, or directly via the corporate. SpaceX’s webcast will begin about 20 minutes before liftoff. There may be a 50% probability of fine weather for the launch.
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Launch of this Starlink mission has been delayed from May 30. It follows the launch of 52 Starlink satellites on May 30 in addition to the planned launch on Saturday (June 3) of a SpaceX Dragon capsule on a robotic resupply mission to the International Space Station.
SpaceX’s V2 Mini satellites are more powerful versions of its earlier Starlink spacecraft. The brand new satellites provide greater broadband capability, in keeping with the corporate, and are fitted out with Hall thruster electric propulsion systems, which give greater than twice the quantity of thrust in comparison with those used on older iterations.
There are over 4,000 Starlink satellites in orbit, and the corporate has regulatory approval to launch as much as 12,000 more. SpaceX is, nonetheless, applying for permission so as to add 30,000 more satellites to the project.