SpaceX starts on Sunday Starlink satellite on board Rocket from Florida

SpaceX started another Falcon 9 rocket during the Oscars ceremony on Sunday evening and sent another payload of 21 Starlink wide band satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station into a low orbit.

The Starlink 12-20 mission was withdrawn from the start complex 40 at 9:24 p.m. The SpaceX mission has previously marked the 20th orbital rocket start of the year from Floridas space coast.

The upswing in Prime Time occurred on Sunday on outstanding meteorological conditions. The 45th weather squadron of the Space Force had a 90% chance for “Go for Start” weating predicting, with the downturn winch and cumulus clouds representing slim threats.

Ten minutes before the incline was in the pad. SpaceX crews demolished a list of the most important milestones of the most important countdown milestones before lifting. T-minus:

7 minutes: Falcon 9 begins engine cooling before the start.
1 minute: Command flight computer begins the final preliminary tests. Driving dance pressurization for flight pressure begins.
45 seconds: SpaceX start director checks “Go for launch”.
3 seconds: Motor controller orders the engine ignition sequence.
0 seconds: Falcon 9 upswing.

The fifth flight of Falcon 9 in the first stage Booster was the start on Sunday, SpaceX reported. This previously introduced booster has GEES-U, Maxar 3 and two Starlink missions.

After the stage separation, the booster returned to earth to land on the SpaceX drone ship, only the instructions in the Atlantic.

SpaceX looks at another Falcon 9 -start on a Starlink mission on Sunday and on the early Wednesday morning, a advisory broadcasts for the Federal Aviation Administration Operations Plan.

The 4½-hour start window extends from 1 a.m. to 5:31 a.m. Live Florida today. The reporting on the Space Team begins at 90 minutes before lifting 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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SpaceX starts on Sunday Starlink satellite on board Rocket from Florida

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