SpaceX Plans 3 Launches on Friday, Saturday and Sunday From Opposite Coasts
SpaceX has launches planned for Friday, Saturday and Sunday from the East and West coasts.
A Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch 53 Starlink broadband satellites from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 12:08 p.m. EDT (16:08 UTC). The launch window is instantaneous. A backup launch window is Saturday at 11:47 a.m. EDT (15:47 UTC).
The first stage booster supporting this mission previously launched GPS III-3, Turksat 5A, Transporter-2, and nine Starlink missions. Following stage separation, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth and land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
On Saturday, a Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch the Airbus-built SARah synthetic aperture radar satellite for the German military from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The launch window opens at approximately 7:00 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT, 14:00 UTC). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster will return to Landing Zone 4 at Vandenberg.
On Sunday, a Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch the Globalstar FM15 communications satellite at 12:27 a.m. EDT (04:27 UTC) from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
You can watch the live launch webcast for each launch starting about 10 minutes before liftoff.
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A bit funny that SpaceX is getting into weekly cadence with medium rockets, while all the small launch startups who kept selling investors on their weekly and daily launch cadence business plans can’t seem get anywhere close to that rate
Might have something to do with the experience base. When you have done something a few times, you will have learned enough to get it done. When you have done something hundreds of times, you should have learned enough to get it done with ease. Compare Learners permit drivers to CDL drivers across the board.
It quite certainly does have things to do with experience. Electron has been operational for 5 years though, you’d expect some uptick.
I think most of the startups getting into this all vastly underestimate how complex the operational side of getting customers payloads ready on the pad actually is.
Yes, and learning from the early failures.
Falcon 9 started flying in 2010. They hit their target cadence, enough launches to eat into their manifest backlog, in 2017. Eight years. Imagine how long it would take Blue Origin to do that, assuming they produce an orbital rocket someday.
Congratulations on a successful launch and the 13th of a booster. And some folks here say they would never get to 10 flights and reuse.
This was also their 100th mission using a previously flown booster. Is there an Ariane 6 subreddit where I can post that factoid? I’ve never been banned from a subreddit. Bucket list.