SpaceX launch overnight: Everything to know about Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida
Keep your eyes peeled for another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch overnight from Florida's Space Coast.
Details: SpaceX is targeting 4:21 a.m. Tuesday to launch the Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-28 mission into low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Additional launch opportunities are available until 5:47 a.m., if needed.
The Falcon 9 will deploy 28 Starlink communications satellites. No Brevard County sonic booms are expected. Instead, after soaring skyward along a northeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas out at sea a bit more than eight minutes after liftoff.
The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron predicted 90% odds of favorable launch weather, with cumulus clouds posing the lone threat. However, meteorologists will monitor a low-to-moderate threat of poor booster recovery weather at sea in the aftermath of Tropical Storm Chantal's Sunday landfall in South Carolina.
Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch coverage updateson this page, starting about 90 minutes before the early morning launch target time. When SpaceX's live webcast begins about five minutes before liftoff, look for it posted below next to our countdown clock.
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Rick Nealeis a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at [email protected]. Twitter/X:@RickNeale1
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