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SpaceX aims on Sunday evening Falcon 9 rocket start of Cape Canaveral

After the Falcon 9 Rocket Launch Doubleheader on Wednesday, see SpaceX crews on Sunday evening for the next climb of Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX is aimed at a 9:24 PM EST upswing for the Starlink 12-20 mission. Backup options remain available on Monday with the start complex 40 to 12:21 p.m. Monday, if necessary.

Expect that the Falcon 9 will use a payload of Starlink internet beam satellites in an orbit with low earth after they have risen in a southeast trajectory. There should be no sound booms in central florida-rather, the booster of the rocket in the first stage on board a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic on board the SpaceX drone ship will be targeted.

The night start on Sunday is used as the 20th Orbital rocket start of the year from the Space Force installation and the neighboring Kennedy Space Center of NASA.

On Wednesday, SpaceX started from KSC at 7:16 p.m. intuitive machines -moonlander on a hike to the moon. Then a second Falcon 9 at 10:34 p.m. from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on a Starlink mission.

“Less than 4 hours apart, #SPACEX #Starlink 12-13 & intuitive machines' IM-2, who presented joint cooperation and rapid start functions,” said Space Launch Delta 45 civil servants in a tweet on Thursday.

“The space domain never sleeps – and we don't,” said the tweet.

The latest news from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Nasas Kennedy Space Center can be found at Floridatoday.com/space.

Rick Neale is a space reporter at Florida today. Contact Neal at Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/x: @Rickneale1

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