SpaceX postpones subsequent Starlink satellite rapid delivery resulting from rocket digicam train

SpaceX known as off the beginning of a Falcon 9 rocket carrying 60 unique Starlink cyber net satellites Thursday (Oct. 22) resulting from mission assurance issues. 

The Falcon 9 rocket became now not as a lot as 15 minutes from liftoff when flight controllers scrubbed the flight. The delivery became scheduled for 12: 14 p.m. EDT (1614 GMT) from Divulge Launch Complicated 40 of Cape Canaveral Air Force Space in Florida. 

“Standing down from today time’s delivery of Starlink to enable beyond regular time for mission assurance work: will enlighten subsequent delivery opportunity as soon as confirmed on the Fluctuate,” SpaceX representatives wrote in a Twitter update. 

“Genuine a exiguous-seeming train with loss of upper stage digicam,” SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk explained in a tradition-up tweet today time. “Potentially nothing extreme, but standing down to re-explore entire automobile factual in case.”

That Fluctuate is the Eastern Fluctuate alongside Florida’s Divulge Wing extinct for launches from the Cape Canaveral Air Force Space and NASA’s nearby Kennedy Divulge Center. 

On the present time’s deliberate Starlink delivery became to be SpaceX’s 2d flight this week and the 15th mission for the company’s rising constellation of cyber net satellites. One other Falcon 9 rocket launched 60 Starlink satellites on Sunday (Oct. 18) from Pad 39A of the Kennedy Divulge Center. 

The Falcon 9 first stage for today time’s delivery strive is a outdated booster that has flown twice earlier than. In September, it launched a outdated Starlink mission and lofted the GPS III SV03 mission for the U.S. Divulge Force in June.

SpaceX has launched bigger than 800 Starlink satellites since 2019 as the company builds a megaconstellation that will maybe also honest at final number about 14,000 satellites to present world broadband cyber net coverage.

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