Kicking off St. Patrick’s Day, SpaceX crews launched a Falcon 9 rocket a couple of hours after sunrise amid cloudy skies and chilling northwesterly winds from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX’s 10-46 Starlink mission lifted off at 9:27 a.m. Tuesday, March 17, from Launch Complex 40. The rocket ascended to the northeast from the Cape before deploying 29 Starlink satellites in low-Earth orbit.
Next, SpaceX is targeting the morning of Thursday, March 19, for a similar Starlink mission. Launch window: 6:35 a.m. to 10:35 a.m. Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team coverage should kick off about 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
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Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY, where he has covered news since 2004. Contact Neale at Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1
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