Live coverage: SpaceX to launch Starlink mission on a Falcon booster’s record-breaking 37th flight

1 min read · reported by Spaceflight Now

SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Florida early Tuesday morning, using a first-stage booster making a record-breaking 37th flight.

The Starlink 10-49 mission will add another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation consisting of more than 11,000 spacecraft. It could be the last Starlink flight from Cape Canaveral for a while, with no further missions for the company’s internet service appearing on the near-term schedule .

So far this year, SpaceX has launched 44 out of 76 Starlink missions from its West Coast launch site at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The company’s Cape Canaveral workforce has been refocused on Starship preparations.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 5:33 a.m. EDT (0933 UTC). The rocket will head off on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.

Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.

The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 90 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window. Launch weather officers said they’re watching for a small possibility of interference from cumulus and anvil clouds.

SpaceX’s flight-leading booster, tail number B1067, will make its 37th mission after entering service in June 2021.

Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1067 will target a landing on the droneship, A Shortfall of Gravitas , positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, this will be 165th landing on this vessel and the 654th Falcon booster landing to date.

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