{"id":9961,"date":"2024-11-30T01:04:05","date_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:04:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2024-11-30T01:04:05","modified_gmt":"2024-11-29T17:04:05","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68105\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68105\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68105\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241130_Starlink_6-65_liftoff_AB.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"549\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241130_Starlink_6-65_liftoff_AB.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241130_Starlink_6-65_liftoff_AB-300x188.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241130_Starlink_6-65_liftoff_AB-678x425.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/11\/20241130_Starlink_6-65_liftoff_AB-768x481.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68105\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) to begin the Starlink 6-65 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update 12:29 a.m. EST (0529 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on its droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX completed the first of its two final Falcon 9 launches of November, using launch pads in both Florida and California.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 6-65 mission, which will add another 24 Starlink satellites to the company\u2019s rapidly growing mega-constellation, lifted off from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at midnight (0500 UTC) on Nov. 30.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7fzcVr9ix50?si=zDo68wFgntjpY1sL\" 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>Heading into the midnight mission, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast an 85 percent chance for favorable weather at liftoff, citing thick clouds along with gusty winds as potential concerns.<\/p>\n<p>\u201c[Precipitation] is expected to be done heading into the primary launch window at midnight, but the question of clouds remains,\u201d launch weather officers wrote in their forecast. \u201cMost models still show an extensive post-frontal cloud deck hanging around, potentially flirting with the freezing level, and thus becoming a launch weather concern.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cFactors that play into this will also include how quickly winds above the surface swing out of the north-northeast and reinforce the post-frontal inversion. The most problematic cloud decks will push south through the window, though a low-topped stratocumulus deck will likely remain. Post-frontal winds will also be a watch item, though the strongest winds will occur a few hours ahead of the window with speeds, while remaining breezy, diminishing through the late night.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1083 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for a sixth time. It previously supported the launches of Crew-8, Polaris Dawn, CRS-31 and two Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1083 landed on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions.\u2019 The successful booster touchdown marked the 100th booster landing for JRTI and the 376th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is poised to launch another Falcon 9 rocket as soon as about three hours after the Starlink 6-65 mission. The NROL-126 mission is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>This will be the latest flight for the National Reconnaissance Office as part of what it calls its proliferated architecture. The payload on this launch, believed to be the government variant of Starlink satellites, called \u2018Starshield,\u2019 will be the fifth such batch launched this year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from the pad at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) to begin the Starlink 6-65 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now Update 12:29 a.m. EST (0529 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on its droneship. SpaceX completed the first of its two final Falcon 9 launches of November, using [&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":[479,316,440,1243],"class_list":["post-9961","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-6-65"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961"}],"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=9961"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9961\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9961"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9961"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9961"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}