Live Starlink Mission Updates From Cape Canaveral

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Launch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Saturday, May 24, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 12-22 mission.

Original story: We've got another SpaceX launch coming up this afternoon — and the rocket should lift off before a sea breeze-fueled convection pattern generates showers and storms across East-Central Florida.

Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY Space Team live coverage of today's SpaceX Starlink 12-22 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX is targeting 1:19 p.m. to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 will deploy a batch of 23 broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit. After soaring along a southeasterly trajectory, the rocket's first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea.

The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron forecast predicted 80% odds of favorable weather early during the 4½-hour launch window, but those odds decrease to 60% by the end. Cumulus clouds, anvil clouds and surface electric fields rank as primary meteorological threats.

The weather squadron warned of "a more active seabreeze convective pattern, with a few showers developing along the westward-moving seabreeze during the early afternoon leading to more robust thunderstorms inland by mid-to-late afternoon."