Following many weather delays, SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink broadband satellites into orbit from Florida’s Space Coast this Friday, June 14.

Atop a Falcon 9 rocket, the Starlink satellites will launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station over the course of a little over three hours, beginning at 5:07 p.m. EDT (2107 GMT). SpaceX has scheduled a live stream of the activity to begin approximately five minutes prior to launch on its X account. The mission can only be launched by the firm until 8:19 p.m. EDT (0019 GMT).

As a result of bad weather, SpaceX had to postpone the mission’s planned launches by one day, from Wednesday, June 12, to Thursday, June 13. If necessary, the corporation also has a backup launch day scheduled for this Saturday, June 15.

If everything goes as planned, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will return to Earth and land on the droneship around 8.5 minutes after launch. Simply Read the Atlantic Ocean’s Instructions.

As per the SpaceX mission description, this will be the booster’s 16th launch and landing. Its fifteen trips so far have included ten Starlink flights. The SES-22 satellite, ispace’s private Hakuto-R Mission 1 moon lander, the Amazonas-6 communications satellite, the CRS-27 cargo mission for NASA, and the Bandwagon-1 multi-payload rideshare flight were the five commercial missions that remained, according to SpaceX.

The 22 Starlink satellites will be launched into low Earth orbit by the Falcon 9’s upper stage and deployed approximately 53 minutes after liftoff.

Thus far in 2024, SpaceX has flown 60 orbital flights, or one launch every 2.7 days on average.43 of these launches have been devoted to expanding the Starlink megaconstellation, which at this point has close to 6,100 spacecraft in operation.