SpaceX plans to launch 24 more Starlink internet satellites from Florida’s Space Coast on Monday (November 11).
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Monday during a four-hour event at 4:02 PM ET (2102 GMT). The launch was originally scheduled for Sunday evening, but was postponed due to “adverse recovery weather conditions,” according to SpaceX.
SpaceX will webcast the launch live on X about five minutes before liftoff.
If all goes as planned, Falcon 9’s first stage will return to Earth for a vertical landing about eight minutes after liftoff from the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
According to one agency, this will be the 12th launch and landing for this particular booster. SpaceX mission description. Five of the previous 11 flights were Starlink missions.
Meanwhile, Falcon 9’s upper stage will continue to carry 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit (LEO), where they will be deployed approximately 65 minutes after liftoff.
Monday’s launch will follow another Starlink mission that launched early Saturday morning (November 9) from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California.
SpaceX currently has 106 Falcon 9 missions launched in 2024. Almost 70% of them were dedicated to building the Starlink megaconstellation, which currently consists of: Over 6,500 active spacecraft.
