SpaceX
SpaceX returns to its launch pad at the Kennedy Space Center on Monday for its twelfth launch of the space professional Starlink satellites. The mission will depart from Launch Complex-39 at 10:22 a.m. (14:22 UTC). Weather conditions are 70 percent favorable for a liftoff.
The Starlink-12 mission will fly to the top of the first phase of the Falcon 9 rocket, which previously launched the company’s first crew dragon mission in May, and then the Anasis-2 mission in July. SpaceX will try to retrieve the booster on it Cf course I still love Drone ship.
This brings the company’s 11th Starlink launch in the calendar year closer to offering a public beta of its service to Mission SpaceX.
It also comes as a potentially important customer, U.S. The military has signaled its interest in a service that provides broadband internet from space. During a roundtable discussion with reporters this week, a senior Air Force official said initial tests of the Starlink system have been good.
“What I saw from Starlink was impressive and positive,” said William Roper, Air Force’s acquisition chief, according to Investor’s Business Daily. “They’ve cleverly deployed engineering satellites. So, there’s a lot to learn from how they were designed, and I think we can learn a lot from them.”
SpaceX has developed a strategy to attract customers – the company is collecting information from people interested in the service and institutional customers. Of these, U.S. The army is probably the most compelling. Roper indicated that the Air Force is ready to support efforts like Starlink that bring innovative communications services that are not otherwise available.
“We can be a case of stability for companies like SpaceX and others who want to sell communications around the world,” he said during a media roundtable. “(They) may not be thinking about customers at sea, but we’ve got our navy there. (They) may not be thinking about customers in the Arctic, but we have our aircraft.”
The webcast for Monday’s launch attempt will begin 15 minutes before the lift lift.
Starlink-12 launch.
