SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites from Florida (Video)

SpaceX plans to launch 24 more of its Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast early Saturday morning (November 30).

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Saturday during a four-hour window that opens at 12:00 p.m. EST (0500 GMT).

SpaceX will webcast the action via its X account, with the livestream beginning approximately five minutes before launch.

If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff and land on the Just Read the Instructions drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

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According to a SpaceX mission description, it will be the sixth launch and landing of this particular booster. Two of the five flights so far have been Starlink missions.

The Falcon 9 upper stage will continue to carry the 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit and deploy them there approximately 65 minutes after launch.

If all goes according to plan, the Starlink launch will be the first leg of a dual rocket launch Saturday morning for SpaceX.

The company also plans to launch the NROL-126 mission for the US National Reconnaissance Office and 20 Starlink aircraft on Saturday at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

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SpaceX Launches 23 Starlink Satellites from Florida (Video)

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