A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch from California early Monday morning (September 25), carrying 21 Starlink satellites into orbit.
The Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Florida on Monday at 3:23 a.m. EDT (0723 GMT; 12:23 a.m. local time in California).
You can watch it live via the SpaceX account on the X website (formerly Twitter); Coverage will begin approximately five minutes before takeoff.
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If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage will return to Earth safely, landing on a SpaceX drone ship at sea about 8.5 minutes after launch.
This will be the sixth takeoff and landing of this first stage of Falcon 9, according to A SpaceX mission description.
Meanwhile, the 21 Starlink satellites from the Falcon 9 upper stage are scheduled to deploy to low Earth orbit (LEO) about 62.5 minutes after launch.
Monday morning’s launch will come less than two days after a Starlink launch from Florida’s Space Coast that marked the 17th flight of the Falcon 9’s first stage. That tied the company’s reuse record, which was set just last week.
Starlink is SpaceX’s massive internet constellation. The network consists of More than 4,750 operational satellites in low Earth orbitThis number will continue to grow in the future.
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