BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – SpaceX scrubbed its Sunday attempt to launch another Starlink mission from Kennedy Space Center, but the agency managed to pull it off on Monday.
The agency did not say why the launch was scrubbed, but rain fell throughout the day in Central Florida.
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SpaceX instead launched the 29 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Monday. The launch took off at 5:25 p.m.
Twenty-nine Starlink satellites took a ride to low-Earth orbit during what will be the relevant first-stage booster’s 32nd flight.
(The first-stage booster) previously launched CRS-22, Crew-3, Turksat 5B, Crew-4, CRS-25, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13G, SES O3B mPOWER-A, PSN SATRIA, Telkomsat Merah Putih 2, Galileo L13, Koreasat-6A, and 20 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage will land on the Just Read the Instructions droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
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