{"id":10042,"date":"2024-08-11T17:47:19","date_gmt":"2024-08-11T09:47:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-at-sunrise-with-23-starlink-satellites\/"},"modified":"2024-08-11T17:47:19","modified_gmt":"2024-08-11T09:47:19","slug":"spacex-launches-falcon-9-at-sunrise-with-23-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-at-sunrise-with-23-starlink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Falcon 9 at sunrise with 23 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 lifts off from Kennedy Space Center at sunrise Monday carrying 23 Starlink satellites in to orbit. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites at sunrise Monday, capping a busy long-weekend for the launch company that saw three launches and two scrubbed countdowns over four days.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9, making its 17th flight, lifted off from pad 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center at 6:37 a.m. EDT (1037 UTC), 13 minutes before sunrise on Florida\u2019s Space Coast. The successful liftoff came after two days of delay for the Starlink 10-7 mission.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9 climbs through the Florida dawn sky on the Starlink 10-7 mission. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Originally scheduled for launch on Saturday, the first launch attempt was abandoned when the rocket was not rolled to the pad in time to make its four-hour launch window. Then on Sunday, with less than a minute to go from liftoff, an abort was called just seconds after the mission\u2019s launch director gave their final \u201cgo for launch.\u201d SpaceX said in a social media post the countdown had \u201cpaused\u201d and did not give a reason for the abort.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9 flies into sunlight creating the so-called jelly fish effect with the rocket\u2019s plume. Image: Michael Cain\/Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Monday\u2019s liftoff was the third for SpaceX in less than 46 hours. Another Starlink mission, designated Starlink 8-3, launched Saturday morning from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station after a one-day delay caused by bad weather in the booster recovery zone. And Sunday evening, Space Norway\u2019s Arctic Satellite Broadband Mission (ASBM) lifted off atop a Falcon 9 from SpaceX\u2019s West Coast launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n

SpaceX confirmed a successful separation of the 23 Starlink satellite just over an hour after launch. The mission brings the total number of Starlink satellites launched to 6,895.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 first stage booster for the Starlink 10-7 mission, tail number B1073, previously launched the ispace Hakuto-R lunar lander, the Bandwagon-1 rideshare flight and 11 Starlink missions. It successfully landed on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas\u2019 about eight and a half minutes after launch. It was the 79th booster landing on this particular droneship and the 337th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n