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Launch recap: Scroll down for dwell protection of the Monday, March 4, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral.
It is a second straight SpaceX launch day!
Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY’s Area Crew dwell protection of tonight’s SpaceX Starlink 6-41 mission from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station.
After sending Crew-8 into low-Earth orbit Sunday night on its six-month mission to the Worldwide Area Station, SpaceX is concentrating on 6:56 p.m. EST for its subsequent Starlink launch.
After liftoff from Launch Advanced 40, the Falcon 9 rocket will deploy a payload of 23 Starlink web satellites into orbit.
No native sonic booms are anticipated throughout this mission. After hovering skyward alongside a southeastern trajectory, the rocket’s first-stage booster will goal touchdown aboard a drone ship out at sea 8½ minutes after liftoff.
The Area Pressure’s forty fifth Climate Squadron forecast requires 80% “go for launch” climate situations on the Cape.
SpaceX Falcon 9 booster lands
Replace 7:04 p.m.: The Falcon 9 first-stage booster simply landed aboard SpaceX’s drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas out on the Atlantic Ocean, finishing its thirteenth mission.
Liftoff!
Replace 6:56 p.m.: SpaceX has simply launched the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Advanced 40 at fog-shrouded Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station.
SpaceX launch webcast begins
Replace 6:51 p.m.: SpaceX’s launch webcast hosted on X (previously Twitter) is now posted on the prime of this web page.
Liftoff is scheduled in 5 minutes from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station.
Fog lowering visibility at dusk
Replace 6:45 p.m.: It stays to be seen how seen tonight’s Falcon 9 launch can be for spectators throughout the Area Coast.
SpaceX launch countdown timeline
Replace 6:40 p.m.: Here is a behind-the-scenes rundown of SpaceX’s remaining launch countdown timeline. T-minus:
- 16 minutes: Second-stage liquid oxygen loading begins.
- 7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine chill previous to launch.
- 1 minute: Command flight laptop begins ultimate prelaunch checks; propellant tank pressurization to flight stress begins.
- 45 seconds: SpaceX launch director verifies “go” for launch.
- 3 seconds: Engine controller instructions engine ignition sequence to start out.
- 0 seconds: Liftoff.
SpaceX booster to land on drone ship
Replace 6:31 p.m.: Tonight’s mission marks the thirteenth flight for this Falcon 9 first-stage booster, SpaceX reported.
Following stage separation, crews anticipate the booster to land on the SpaceX drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas out on the Atlantic Ocean 8 minutes, 15 seconds after liftoff.
SpaceX Falcon 9 fueling now underway
Replace 6:21 p.m.: Falcon 9 fueling procedures at the moment are underway at Launch Advanced 40, SpaceX simply introduced in a tweet.
Which means tonight’s fog-shrouded Starlink 6-41 mission is now dedicated to carry off at 6:56 p.m., or else the launch should be postponed.
Dense fog advisory issued throughout Cape Canaveral
Replace 6:07 p.m.: At 5:25 p.m., the Nationwide Climate Service issued a dense fog advisory for northern Brevard County — together with the Merritt Island Nationwide Wildlife Refuge, Titusville and the Cape — by tomorrow morning.
Dense fog might cut back visibility to ¼-mile to ½-mile, meteorologists warn.
“If driving, decelerate, use your headlights, and depart loads of distance forward of you,” the NWS advisory stated.
SpaceX launches Sidus Area satellite tv for pc
Replace 5:51 p.m.: Lower than an hour in the past, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched Sidus Area’s satellite tv for pc, LizzieSat-1, aboard the Transporter-10 rideshare mission from Vandenberg Area Pressure Base in California.
All instructed, that SpaceX Transporter-10 rocket is anticipated to deploy 53 payloads, similar to cubesats and microsats, in sequential order. LizzieSat-1 was scheduled to deploy one hour and 18 minutes after liftoff.
Based mostly in Cape Canaveral, Sidus Area was previously a division of Craig Applied sciences.
Area Pressure: Particulars behind 80% ‘go’ forecast
Replace 5:36 p.m.: Following are particulars from the Area Pressure’s forty fifth Climate Squadron, which pegged the chances of favorable launch situations at 80%.
“Through the preliminary launch window Monday night, any convective exercise remaining is anticipated to be displaced throughout the inside and western parts of the peninsula, however a couple of showers and lingering anvils might persist domestically,” the squadron’s forecast stated.
“The principle issues for the first launch window can be for the Cumulus Cloud Rule and the Anvil Cloud Guidelines,” the forecast stated.
The squadron additionally famous a low-to-moderate danger of upper-level wind shear.
For the newest information from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station and NASA’s Kennedy Area Middle, go to floridatoday.com/space.
Rick Neale is a Area Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY (for extra of his tales, click here.) Contact Neale at 321-242-3638 or Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1
