Falcon 9 rocket booster who sent NASA astronauts for the International Space Station Is set to recycle again after Tuesday in May Scrubbed launch on Monday. SpaceX hopes to send 60 more Starlink satellites Rotate to the top of his fire column.
The launch, originally scheduled for September, has been postponed several times due to the weather, including heavy clouds in one case and an obscure ground sensor reading in another case twice in the past week. Monday’s scrub was again blamed on the weather. SpaceX Tweeted ET (4:29 am PT) is scheduled for Tuesday at 7:29 a.m. from Cape Canaveral, Florida, with a 70 percent chance of “favorable” weather. You can follow the projection on the livestream below.
Elon Musk’s trademark reusable rocket will make its third flight when Kennedy takes off from the space center. The special unit sent astronauts Doug Hurley and Bob Behnek into orbit in May and beyond. Launched South Korean satellite In July. So far, SpaceX has managed to launch and land the same rocket Six times.
U.S. Delayed even after a separate SpaceX mission to launch a GPS satellite for the Space Force, Musk has expressed his clear disappointment with the series of scrubs.
“We’ll need a lot of improvements to get a chance to complete 48 launches next year!” Kasturi tweeted on Friday.
When the Starlink launch finally lands off the ground, it should be fairly regular. It will be the 13th Starlink mission so far and SpaceX is planning on more than a dozen as its broadband mega-galaxy grows.
Half of the nasal cone at the top of the rocket, or ferring, has also seen the previous two flights, both of which are previous Starlink missions.
Following the launch and splitting of the second phase of the rocket and the payload, the first phase booster will return to Earth on a droneship in the Atlantic Ocean again.