SpaceX and the US Space Force launched Falcon Heavy carrying the USSF-52 mission from Kennedy Space Center at 8:07pm Eastern Standard Time under partly-cloudy skies and huge crowds gathered in Titusville and Cape Canaveral. After separating from the core first stage of the rocket, the two side boosters arced across the sky and returned to Cape Canaveral Space Force Station safely some eight and a half minutes later.
After eight days of bad weather cleared from Space Coast skies, SpaceX got right back to work and sent a Falcon 9 to orbit from Pad SLC-40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late Monday evening. Tonight’s payload was another 33 Starlink satellites with the mission designation Starlink 6-34.
This evening, SpaceX announced the date for the next attempt to launch Falcon Heavy carrying USSF-52 / X37-B from Kennedy Space Center: December 28th. After announcing the date, SpaceX added on their website that the planned launch window extends from 7:00pm – 11:00pm that night.
They say if you don’t like the weather here in Florida, wait half an hour and it will change. SpaceX tried that this evening with the planned launch of a Falcon 9 carrying the Starlink 6-34 group of Internet connectivity satellites, but luck was not on their side: with roughly seventy seconds left in the countdown to liftoff, an abort and scrub was called by mission controllers, due to high-level ground winds.
If there’s one thing that’s a certainty here on the Space Coast, it’s that launch schedules can and do change often. After last night’s delay of the planned launch of Falcon Heavy for the US Space Force, SpaceX stated that the next attempt would be no earlier than tonight, Tuesday December 12th. That has now been changed to NET Wednesday, according Space Launch Delta 45 of the US Space Force and SpaceX.
SpaceX halted the countdown of its planned Falcon Heavy Launch this evening after encountering what the company labeled a “ground side issue.” The next launch attempt will occur no earlier than Dec. 12, 2023 from pad 39A at the Kennedy Space Center at 8:14 PM Eastern Standard Time.
SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites for their orbital-based Internet service Wednesday night from Pad SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The successful launch was aboard a Falcon 9 performing its ninth mission.
SpaceX launched 23 Starlink satellites for their orbital-based Internet service Thursday morning from Pad SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The successful launch was aboard a Falcon 9 performing its ninth mission.
SpaceX launched another group of Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station late Saturday evening. The mission, designated as Starlink 5-31, added more Starlink satellites into the burgeoning constellation of over 5,500 small satellites providing Internet access from virtually anywhere globally. The launch occurred at the start of the launch window on a mostly cloudy, humid Florida evening at 11:00 PM Eastern Standard Time.
The mission, designated as Starlink 5-31, added more Starlink satellites into the burgeoning constellation of over 5,500 small satellites providing Internet access from virtually anywhere on the globe.
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