![]() The second stage will then execute a standard six-minute “burn” of its Merlin 1D+ Vacuum engine to deliver the 53 Starlinks into orbit, with deployment targeted about 65 minutes into the mission. Photo Credit: Jeff Seibert/AmericaSpaceĪfter liftoff, B1073 will power the Falcon 9 stack uphill for the first 2.5 minutes of flight, before returning to land on JRTI’s deck to wrap up the 199th successful landing of Falcon-class hardware. And after the intractable Florida weather blighted earlier Falcon 9 missions late last month and earlier in June, the forecast for Monday and Tuesday promises fair skies, following winds and-with the exception of the potential violation of the Cumulus Cloud Rule-a 90-percent “Go” probability.ī1073 successfully lifted her first geostationary payload aloft in June 2022. Tuesday from storied Space Launch Complex (SLC)-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla. EDT Monday, following by two backup opportunities at 2:45 a.m. Falcon 9 launches Starlink 5-11 early in the morning, after rain moved out of the area.įor her ninth launch, B1073 will carry 53 more Starlinks to orbit and is tracking a pair of T-0 points at 3:10 a.m. Last March, on her seventh mission, she became the most flight-seasoned Falcon 9 to carry a payload-human or cargo-to the ISS. Photo Credit: Jeff Seibert/AmericaSpaceįlying first is the eight-times-used B1073 booster, which entered service in May of last year and has so far lofted 178 Starlink low-orbiting internet communications satellites, plus the SES-22 and Amazonas Nexus geostationary communications satellites and a lunar-bound mission with Japan’s Hakuto-R lander, the United Arab Emirates (UAE) Rashid rover and NASA’s water-ice-seeking Lunar Flashlight. All told, she has now logged eight launches, with her ninth expected early tomorrow morning. In readiness for the Space Coast launch, JRTI put to sea out of Port Canaveral last Wednesday, bound for a recovery position about 400 miles (640 kilometers) offshore.ī1073 flew five times in 2022, including a mission last June to deliver the SES-22 geostationary communications satellite to orbit. Tomorrow’s dual launches-spaced only 14 hours apart-are destined to continue this land-and-sea landing tradition, with the first of the pair targeting a touchdown in the Atlantic Ocean on the ASDS “Just Read the Instructions” and the second aiming to alight on solid ground at Landing Zone (LZ)-4 at Vandenberg Space Force Base, Calif. The fleet completed its most recent land landing last month, after the “new” B1080 booster successfully lifted Ax-2 crew members Peggy Whitson, John Shoffner, Ali Al-Qarni and Rayyanah Barnawi on the first leg of their nine-day research expedition to the International Space Station (ISS), and the last landing on a drone ship occurred last Monday when the CRS-28 Cargo Dragon took flight on its own month-long trip to the sprawling orbital complex. ![]() Photo Credit: Mike Killian/AmericaSpaceĮver since the first Falcon 9 touched down on terra firma, at Cape Canaveral’s Landing Zone (LZ)-1 in December 2015, followed by the first successful on-point return of a booster to the expansive deck of an Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship (ASDS) in April 2016, there have been 43 successful “land” landings and 155 “oceanic” landings. ![]() A Falcon 9 core alights on Landing Zone (LZ)-1 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Fla.
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