Update June 4, 5:29 a.m. EDT (0929 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.
Update June 3, 7:24 a.m. EDT (1124 UTC): SpaceX scrubbed the launch.
SpaceX will try again to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Thursday morning, following a scrub on Wednesday due to poor weather that proved insurmountable.
When it launches, the Starlink 10-43 mission will add 29 broadband internet satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation. It consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is now scheduled for Thursday, June 4, 6:26:30 a.m. EDT (1026:30 UTC). The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.
The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 95 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window on Thursday. Meteorologists are tracking a small chance for interference from cumulus clouds.
“Mid to upper-level clouds will persist but will most likely be too high to pose an LLCC concern. Latest model guidance has become drier behind the front with the latest runs, leading to a drop in POV for the initial launch window Thursday morning,” launch weather officers wrote.
SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1090. This will be its 12th flight after launching missions, like NASA’s Crew-10, CRS-33 and Bandwagon-3.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1090 will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina. If successful, this will be the 153rd landing on this vessel and the 619th booster landing to date.
