Wednesday, June 3, 2020

SpaceX Aiming At Another Starlink Launch Today

Hawthorne-based SpaceX is aiming at another launch of a number of Starlink satellites, part of a constellations of thousands that the spaceflight company is hoping to send into low earth orbit. According to the company, it hopes for a launch on Wednesday, June 3rd at 9:25 p.m. EDT, from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Air Force Station. The Falcon 9 being used in the launch is one that previously had been launched multiple times--including the Telstar 18 VANTAGE mission in September 2018, the Iridium-8 mission in January 2019, and two separate Starlink missions in May 2019 and in January 2020.

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