CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — SpaceX launched nearly 30 Starlink satellites on Tuesday evening.
What You Need To Know
- The Falcon 9 rocket sent up the Starlink 6-93 mission
- The 28 satellites from the Starlink company join the thousands of their siblings in low-Earth orbit
The Falcon 9 rocket sent up the Starlink 6-93 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Liftoff was at 9:17 p.m. ET.
The 45th Weather Squadron gave an 85% chance of good liftoff conditions, with the only concerns being the anvil cloud and cumulus cloud rules.
Find out more about the weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch.
Lucky 7?
This will be the seventh mission for the Falcon 9's first-stage booster B1085. Its previous launches include two crewed missions and a lunar one.
- Crew-9 mission
- Starlink 6-77 mission
- Starlink 10-5 mission
- RRT-1
- Blue Ghost and HAKUTO-R
- Fram2 mission
After the stage separation, the first-stage rocket will land on the droneship Just Read the Instructions that will be in the Atlantic Ocean.
About the mission
The 28 satellites from the Starlink company will be joining the thousands of their siblings in low-Earth orbit.
They will provide internet service to many parts of Earth after they have been deployed.
Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been recording Starlink satellites.
Before this launch, McDowell recorded the following:
- 7,355 are in orbit
- 6,616 are in operational orbit
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