CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION — The weather might be a bit uncertain for Friday night’s launch of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites. 

What You Need To Know

  • SpaceX will send off Starlink 10-1 mission

  • The liftoff will take place at Space Launch Complex 40

For the Starlink 10-1 mission, SpaceX will send up its Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, the company stated.

SpaceX owns the Starlink company.

The launch window will open at 8 p.m. ET, with backup attempts until 10:10 p.m. ET.

However, the weather is concerning. The 45th Weather Squadron gave a 60% chance of good liftoff conditions.

The constraints against the launch are: anvil cloud, cumulus cloud and surface electric fields rules.

“The latest forecast models have increased coverage of showers and storms over the central to southern portions of the state for Friday, so showers and storms could linger well into the launch window,” the squadron stated.

If the launch is scrubbed, the next attempt will be Saturday at 7:47 p.m. ET.

Sweet 16 launch

This is Falcon 9 booster B1069’s Sweet 16 launch. The first-stage booster has a number of missions under its belt already:

After the stage separation, the first-stage rocket is expected to land on the droneship Shortfall of Gravitas that will be in the Atlantic Ocean.

About the mission

There will be 22 Starlink satellites that will join the thousands already in low-Earth orbit.

Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been recording Starlink satellites.

Before this launch, McDowell logged the following:

  • 6,118 are in orbit
  • 5,232 are in operational orbit

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