Everything to know about Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida

Pleasant weather should be 80% favorable for this morning’s SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron reported.

SpaceX is targeting a four-hour window from 6:53 a.m. to 10:53 a.m. to send another Starlink mission into flight from Launch Complex 40. After ascending along a northeasterly trajectory, the Falcon 9 will deploy a batch of 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit.

The primary weather watch items: cumulus clouds and anvil clouds.

No Brevard County sonic booms should occur. The rocket’s first-stage booster will target landing aboard the SpaceX drone ship Just Read the Instructions out at sea 8 minutes, 23 seconds after liftoff.

Check back for live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team launch coverage updates on this page, starting about 90 minutes before the launch window opens. When SpaceX’s live webcast begins about five minutes before liftoff, we’ll post it below next to our countdown clock.

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Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1

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