SpaceX Launches Starlink Satellites, Scrubs Second Mission Planned for Sunday Written 5 June 2023
On Sunday, June 4, at 8:20 a.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. | Credit: SpaceX; YouTube; framegrab
Florida Today reports that SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 on Sunday morning from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. The Falcon 9 rocket carried 22 Starlink satellites into orbit. The company now has over 4,500 Starlink satellites orbiting Earth. The second of two planned launches was scrubbed due to weather. After the scrub of Sunday’s second launch, NASA and SpaceX teams “re-targeted 11:47 a.m. EDT Monday, June 5, for the next mission carrying cargo to the International Space Station.”
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On Sunday, June 4, at 8:20 a.m. ET, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 second-generation Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
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