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SpaceX for throwing 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 Rocket De Cape Canaveral – Spaceflight Now

File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) with Cape Canaveral Space Force. Image: Adam Bernstein / Spaceflight now

SpaceX is preparing to launch its latest batch of wide -band Internet satellites aboard its Falcon 9 rocket when launching Falcon 9 in Preawn on Tuesday.

The mission, nicknamed Starlink 10-28, will carry 28 satellites in low terrestrial orbit. SpaceX targets the takeoff of the space launch complex 40 at the CAPE Canaveral spatial station at 4 h 21 HAE (0821 UTC).

SpaceFlight will now have a live blanket starting about an hour before takeoff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uht3bzmhbqu

The 45th meteorological squadron provides a chance of 95% of time favorable to takeoff. There is just a minor possibility of interference of the cumulus clouds.

SpaceX uses the Falcon 9 First Stage Booster B1077 on this mission, which will be launched for a 22nd time. Its previous missions include CREW-5 from NASA, the GPS III 06 space vehicle and 17 previous lots of Starlink satellites.

A little over eight minutes after takeoff, B1077 will target an landing on droneship, “a deficit of gravity”. If successful, it will be the 117th affected for this ship and the 473rd Booster Landing for SpaceX to date.

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