SpaceX is planning to launch 22 Starlink internet satellites on Tuesday (Jan. 23), after a series of earlier attempts that ended in delays and an unexplained abort. <\/p>\n
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is set to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:35 p.m. EST (4:35 p.m. California time; 0035 GMT on Jan. 24). An attempt at a lift off on Sunday night was called off due to poor conditions. <\/p>\n
\"Standing down from tonights Falcon 9 launch attempt due to weather,\" SpaceX posted on X (formerly Twitter). <\/p>\n
You can watch a live webcast of the launch on Tuesday beginning five minutes before liftoff on X @SpaceX and on SpaceX's website. <\/p>\n
A launch attempt on Friday ended with only 57 seconds left in the countdown. SpaceX did not provide an explanation for the aborted liftoff. <\/p>\n
Related: Starlink satellite train: How to see and track it in the night sky <\/p>\n
Should all go as planned, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff for a landing on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean. <\/p>\n
This will be the 16th launch and landing for this booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. Among its previous flights were NASA's Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) and 10 other Starlink missions. <\/p>\n
Meanwhile on Tuesday, the Falcon 9's upper stage will continue hauling the 22 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, deploying them there about 62 minutes after liftoff. <\/p>\n
Starlink is SpaceX's broadband megaconstellation. It currently consists of more than 5,250 operational spacecraft, but that number is increasing all the time. <\/p>\n
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