Updates From Starlink Mission From Cape Canaveral
Read more: See hereLaunch recap: Scroll down to review live updates from the Wednesday, June 18, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on the Starlink 10-18 mission.
Original story: Night owl alert: SpaceX is targeting an early morning Falcon 9 launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Climbing to the northeast, the rocket will lift a payload of 28 Starlink broadband satellites into low-Earth orbit. Expect pristine launch weather.
The Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron forecast called for 95% odds of "go for launch" conditions, with cumulus clouds from isolated coastal showers posing the lone threat.
No Brevard County sonic booms should occur from this Starlink 10-18 mission at Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 first-stage booster will target landing aboard a SpaceX drone ship out at sea just more than eight minutes after liftoff.
The SpaceX Starlink liftoff try comes on the heels of United Launch Alliance's Monday afternoon scrub of Amazon's second Project Kuiper satellite mission. Teams are evaluating a possible issue with a gaseous nitrogen purge line after an elevated temperature was detected within the Atlas V booster engine, ULA officials reported.
Update 2:03 a.m.: The Falcon 9 first-stage booster just landed aboard SpaceX's drone ship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean, completing its fifth mission.
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