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SpaceX aims to launch its 16th batch of its Starlink broadband satellites on Saturday, which looks to be a busy day for Elon Musk.
Promoting a new set of spinning routers has become a routine matter for SpaceX as it works to build a massive constellation
With thousands of individual satellites in low Earth orbit. But the job is to put a few feathers into the musk cap.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 rocket is slated to make its seventh flight, which will be a record for recycling rockets for the company. The booster previously flew four missions from Starlink and a pair of a larger communications satellite.
SpaceX will likely attempt to land the booster aboard a drone ship in the Atlantic shortly after launch, and may also attempt to capture the nasal cone halves or cruise with another pair of ships.
This all happens only about 10 hours after SpaceX is scheduled to conduct another big launch on the other side of the country. On Saturday morning, another Falcon 9 will take off from Vandenburg Air Force Base in California carrying the new NASA / European Space Agency Ranger 6 satellite Michael Freilich designed to monitor global sea level rise and improve weather forecasting..
The launch is scheduled for 9:17 AM. M. You can find more information about the mission in our previous coverage.
The launch of Starlink is set for Saturday night at 7:17 am. M. PT (10:17 am. M. ET) on Saturday. You can see everything here. We will add live broadcasts to this post as soon as it becomes available.
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