![]() In a Friday weather report issued by forecasters with the Space Force's Space Launch Delta 45, conditions were listed at 95% "go" for liftoff during the four-hour window.īrief afternoon showers earlier this week on the Space Coast should give way to "drier conditions by Saturday morning and into Sunday evening," forecasters said. About eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 booster will target a drone ship landing in the Atlantic Ocean. There won't be any risk of early morning sonic booms waking anyone up with this launch. SpaceX was expected to announce narrowed-down launch times in that long window sometime Friday or Saturday. The 230-foot rocket is set to lift off from Launch Complex 40 on Sunday, May 14, during a window that runs from 12:48 a.m. Weekend weather conditions around Cape Canaveral Space Force Station are expected to be favorable for SpaceX's next Falcon 9 launch with another batch of Starlink internet satellites. EDT with 56 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida! After a flight toward the southeast, the rocket's first stage also landed on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. Meanwhile, SpaceX is already this year approaching an average of two launches every week.Watch Video: SpaceX successfully launches another batch of Starlink satellites The replacement rocket for both Atlas and Delta, Vulcan Centaur has dozens of missions lined up in the next five years so that ULA managers expect to get to a pace of one launch every two weeks. ![]() Meanwhile ULA’s new Vulcan Centaur rocket awaits the results of an investigation into a fireball incident that damaged ULA’s testing facilities in Alabama before it will let it fly for the first time. ![]() The crewed flight of Boeing’s CST-100 Starliner on a ULA Atlas V was recently delayed from a planned July liftoff that now won’t get an opportunity to fly until at least November. ULA meanwhile has faced delays on several of its planned launches for the year so the NROL-68 flight on the second-to-last ever Delta IV Heavy marked its first launch in more than six months, and first from the Space Coast since October 2022. ![]() Those flights are on top of a regular cadence of Starlink and other satellite launches while also pursuing the next test flight of Starship from Texas. Spectacle-wise, it also has three more planned launches of Falcon Heavy including the October mission to launch NASA’s Psyche probe to explore an asteroid of the same name. It has at least two more crewed flights planned for 2023 including Crew-7 for NASA in mid-August and the Polaris Dawn flight for billionaire Jared Isaacman now slated for the fourth quarter of the year. Among those are the year’s only U.S.-based crewed flights - two from Kennedy Space Center - as well as a pair of its powerhouse Falcon Heavy launches also from KSC. With this mission, SpaceX has managed 43 orbital launches not including Starship. Musk has said the company could execute as many as 100 launches among all of its facilities by the end of the year. ![]() In addition, SpaceX has flown 13 times from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California as well as the test launch attempt of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy from its Boca Chica, Texas, launch facility Starbase. ![]()
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