{"id":9832,"date":"2025-06-01T23:27:20","date_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:27:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-scrubs-monday-morning-launch-of-23-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2025-06-01T23:27:20","modified_gmt":"2025-06-01T15:27:20","slug":"spacex-scrubs-monday-morning-launch-of-23-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-scrubs-monday-morning-launch-of-23-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX scrubs Monday morning launch of 23 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68179\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68179\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68179\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241207-Starlink-12-5-Pad-Shot.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241207-Starlink-12-5-Pad-Shot.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/12\/20241207-Starlink-12-5-Pad-Shot-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68179\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: A Falcon 9 stands ready to launch the Starlink 12-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: Spaceflight Now.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update June 2, 12:14 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the Monday morning launch attempt and is now targeting Tuesday, June 3.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX decided to scrub its plans to launch 23 Starlink satellites in the pre-dawn hours of Monday morning, though the company didn\u2019t state a reason for the change in plans.<\/p>\n<p>The launch team is now targeting a liftoff of the Starlink 12-19 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Tuesday, June 3 at 12:29 a.m. EDT (0429 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/o75LJrSmh_k?si=475xmoAZD8HPuVzs\" 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>On Sunday, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 75 percent chance for favorable weather at liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cMost convection associated with thunderstorms should be diminished by the initial launch window Sunday night, but lingering moisture and a few rogue showers could produce cumulus cloud and surface electric field violations,\u201d launch weather officers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>But it\u2019s not only conditions in the clouds that were of concern for the early Monday morning launch. Space weather is also a watch item after a massive Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) erupted from the Sun on Friday and arrived at Earth Sunday, triggering a major disturbance in the Earth\u2019s magnetic field, known as a geomagnetic storm.<\/p>\n<p>The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Space Weather Prediction Center declared the storm \u2018G4 (Severe)\u2019 on a warning scale which tops out at G5. The center said the disturbed conditions were expected to continue into Monday. According to NOAA, a G4 storm can impact spacecraft with \u201csurface charging and tracking problems\u201d and \u201ccorrections may be needed for orientation problems\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>In February 2022, SpaceX lost as many as 40 Starlink satellites it had just launched when they reentered prematurely due to increased atmospheric drag, that the company blamed on geomagnetic storm activity.<\/p>\n<p>The 45th Weather squadron listed solar activity as a moderate risk for the Monday morning launch opportunity.<\/p>\n<p>Meteorologists said the backup launch window stretching from Monday night into Tuesday morning was slightly worse, suggesting a 65 percent for favorable weather.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 first stage booster 1077 to launch this mission, which will be making its 21st flight. It previously launched missions like NASA\u2019s Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06 and a Cygnus spacecraft on the NG-20 mission for Northrop Grumman.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, SpaceX will aim to land B1077 on the droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions,\u2019 positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, this will be the 123rd landing for this vessel and the 456th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>Onboard the first Falcon 9 launch of June are 23 Starlink satellites, which include 13 that have direct-to-cell capabilities. To date, SpaceX has launched 635 of these DTC capable Starlink satellites. Deployment is expected to occur one hour, five minutes into flight.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68522\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68522\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68522\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116_Starship_Flight_7_EDIT1_SHIP33_2.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"563\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116_Starship_Flight_7_EDIT1_SHIP33_2.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116_Starship_Flight_7_EDIT1_SHIP33_2-300x193.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116_Starship_Flight_7_EDIT1_SHIP33_2-678x436.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/01\/20250116_Starship_Flight_7_EDIT1_SHIP33_2-768x494.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68522\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">An up-close look at the payload bay door designed to deploy the so-called \u201cStarlink simulators\u201d during the Flight 7 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>In a post on X on May 31, SpaceX Founder Elon Musk forecast that Starship would start deploying V3 Starlink satellites \u201cin six to nine months,\u201d which he said would reduce latency \u201cbelow 20ms.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe new, much larger satellites will be at ~350km instead of ~550km altitude, which cuts latency due to speed of light down to ~5ms,\u201d Musk said.<\/p>\n<p>Musk also said in a recently published company talk that the third version of its Starship rocket would start launching by the end of 2025, which would roughly align with the Starlink prediction. However, the timeline of the Starship program has been largely aspirational with goals for things like orbital refueling and payload deployment being delayed a year or more beyond their initial predictions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File: A Falcon 9 stands ready to launch the Starlink 12-5 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: Spaceflight Now. Update June 2, 12:14 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the Monday morning launch attempt and is now targeting Tuesday, June 3. 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