{"id":9545,"date":"2026-06-04T00:36:52","date_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:36:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-sunrise-starlink-mission-following-weather-scrub\/"},"modified":"2026-06-04T00:36:52","modified_gmt":"2026-06-03T16:36:52","slug":"spacex-launches-sunrise-starlink-mission-following-weather-scrub","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-sunrise-starlink-mission-following-weather-scrub\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches sunrise Starlink mission following weather scrub"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73564\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73564\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73564\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260604_Starlink_10-43_liftoff_AB-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260604_Starlink_10-43_liftoff_AB-1.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260604_Starlink_10-43_liftoff_AB-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73564\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 10-43 mission on June 4, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update June 4, 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the drone ship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update June 3, 7:24 a.m. EDT (1124 UTC): SpaceX scrubbed the launch.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The second time proved to be the charm as SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday morning. It came about 24 hours after a scrub on Wednesday due to poor weather that proved insurmountable.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 10-43 mission will add 29 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation. It consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at Thursday, June 4, 6:26:30 a.m. EDT (1026:30 UTC). The Falcon 9 rocket flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/YBNo-Rq0rpc?si=BWRuDlK3NH_hXQOI\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 95 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window on Thursday. Meteorologists were tracking a small chance for interference from cumulus clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMid to upper-level clouds will persist but will most likely be too high to pose an LLCC concern. Latest model guidance has become drier behind the front with the latest runs, leading to a drop in POV for the initial launch window Thursday morning,\u201d launch weather officers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1090. This was its 12th flight after launching missions, like NASA\u2019s Crew-10, CRS-33 and Bandwagon-3.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1090 landed on the drone ship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas,\u2019 positioned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. This was the 153rd landing on this vessel and the 619th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_73565\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73565\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73565\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260604_Starlink_10-43_liftoff_JP-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"542\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260604_Starlink_10-43_liftoff_JP-1.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260604_Starlink_10-43_liftoff_JP-1-300x240.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73565\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 10-43 mission on June 4, 2026. Image: John Pisani\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 10-43 mission on June 4, 2026. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now Update June 4, 6:54 a.m. EDT (1054 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the drone ship. Update June 3, 7:24 a.m. EDT (1124 UTC): [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[673,479,676,316,440,722],"class_list":["post-9545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-asog","tag-falcon-9","tag-sld-45","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-10-43"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9545\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}