6/29/2023 0 Comments Launch time tonight![]() SpaceX's Starlink internet satellites forced to dodge Russian anti-satellite test debris SpaceX Starlink satellite internet terminals arrive in Ukraine Saturday night's launch will feature a craft with similar ambitions in Blue Walker 3.īlueWalker 3 is a test satellite that will be operated by Texas-based company AST SpaceMobile, which plans to build a space-based cellular broadband network of its own. Late last month, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk announced a deal with T-Mobile to provide connectivity directly to smartphones using Starlink Version 2 satellites, a bigger and more powerful variant scheduled to come online next year. ![]() ![]() Indeed, yet another Starlink batch will go up this weekend, if all goes to plan: A Falcon 9 carrying 54 Starlinks is scheduled to launch late Sunday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is next door to KSC. The company has launched more than 3,200 Starlink satellites to date and plans to loft many more it has permission to put 12,000 Starlink craft into orbit and has applied for permission for up to 30,000 additional satellites. Starlink is SpaceX's broadband constellation, which already provides service to hundreds of thousands of people around the globe. "One of our most complex missions," company founder and CEO Elon Musk said via Twitter on Friday (Sept. Making all this happen will require five engine burns - more than on any other Falcon 9 mission, according to the SpaceX mission description. It's scheduled to deploy Blue Walker 3 just under 50 minutes after liftoff and the 34 Starlinks an hour and 14 minutes later. ![]() The rocket's upper stage, meanwhile, will continue powering its way to orbit. It will make a pinpoint touchdown atop SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean 8.5 minutes after liftoff, if all goes according to plan. The Falcon 9 first stage will come back to Earth for yet another landing on Saturday night. ![]()
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