It will be a late lunch for the operators of the Spacex mission in Cape Canaveral due to the half -day launch of another Starlink satellite battery.
A Spacex Falcon 9 rocket launched the Starlink 6-67 mission from the Cape Canaveral space force station in Florida today (May 14) at 12:38 PM EDT (1638 GMT). The rocket rose with a brilliant sky from the blue space coast, carrying 28 wireless satellites on the Internet to the orbit of the Low Earth (Leo).
This is the fourth mission for the booster that supports today’s Starlink launch. Designated B1090, the reinforcement also supported the O3B MPower-E mission of SES, the crew astronaut flight-10 for NASA and the Bandwagon-3 Ridarehare mission last month.
The nine Merlin engines of B1090 cut approximately 2.5 minutes in flight, quickly followed by the separation of the stage. The upper stage of Falcon 9S continues with its Starlink battery to Leo, while the reinforcement slowed its descent before its landing burning.
Approximately 8.5 minutes after takeoff, B1090 landed safely a deficit of drone ships, parked in the Atlantic Ocean.
It is expected that the 28 Starlinks will be released from the rocket payload adapter approximately one hour in flight. Each satellite will spend the next few days maneuvering in more specific orbits within Starlink Megaconstellation.
The Spacex Starlink Network consists of more than 7,000 operational satellites and counting. In general, they operate in a network that covers almost the entire planet, except for the posts. Starlink offers users a high -speed Internet connection from anywhere (not the posts), customers can point out their Starlink receiver to the sky.
The launch of today was the 58th Falcon 9 mission of Spacex of 2025 and 60 ° take off so far this year. The other two missions involved Starship, the next Lift-Lift Super-Lift of Spacex. The company is preparing for another spacecraft test as soon as May 21.
