SpaceX is preparing for one more Falcon 9 launch to close out the week at the Cape. The Starlink 6-52 mission will add 23 more satellites to the growing low Earth orbit constellation.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is set for 6:40 p.m. EDT (2240 UTC). The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 90 percent chance of favorable conditions at launch.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about one hour prior to liftoff.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster for this mission, tail number B1080, sill be making its seventh flight on this mission. It previously flew the Ax-2 and Ax-3 private astronaut missions on behalf of Axiom Space in addition to launching the Euclid observatory for the European Space Agency.
A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1080 will land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ This will be the 66th landing on ASOG and the 299th Falcon booster landing to date.
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