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Targeting 11:31 a.m. EDT today for Falcon 9 launch of Starlink from SLC-40; weather is 60% favorable for liftoff
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Standing down from today's launch of Starlink to allow additional time for mission assurance work; will announce next launch opportunity once confirmed on the Range
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T-30 minutes until Falcon 9’s launch of the fifteenth Starlink mission. Webcast will go live ~15 minutes before liftoff spacex.com/launches
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Targeting Thursday, October 22 at 12:14 p.m. EDT for Falcon 9’s launch of Starlink from SLC-40 in Florida. Keeping an eye on weather; current forecast is 50% favorable for liftoff
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Deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship
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Liftoff!
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Watch Falcon 9 launch Starlink satellites to orbit → spacex.com/launches twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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T-30 minutes until Falcon 9’s launch of SpaceX’s fourteenth Starlink mission; weather is 70% favorable and the webcast will go live ~15 minutes before liftoff spacex.com/launches
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The booster supporting this launch has flown on five previous missions, and this mission will be the third flight for both fairing halves
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Static fire test complete – targeting Sunday, October 18 at 8:25 a.m. EDT for Falcon 9’s launch of 60 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 39A at Kennedy Space Center
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NASA has selected Starship for a propellant transfer demonstration! Combining Starship’s rapid reusability with orbital refilling is critical to economically transporting large numbers of crew and cargo to the Moon and Mars go.nasa.gov/3jWLKpA youtu.be/C8JyvzU0CXU
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The Dragon spacecraft supporting SpaceX’s 21st cargo resupply mission to the @Space_Station departed our Hawthorne factory last week for Florida
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Deployment of 60 Starlink satellites confirmed
1719
Ms. Tree caught the fairing half that flew in support of two previous missions!
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Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship
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Liftoff!
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Watch Falcon 9 launch 60 Starlink satellites twitter.com/i/broadcasts/1…
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T-30 minutes until Falcon 9 launches 60 Starlink satellites; webcast will go live ~15 minutes before liftoff spacex.com/launches
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In the background is Grasshopper, which SpaceX used to test the technologies needed for propulsive landing of an orbital rocket
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Since Grasshopper’s first flight in September 2012, SpaceX has landed 60 Falcon first stage rocket boosters and re-flown them 42 times