KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Florida’s Space Coast is preparing for a busy summer with a NASA Mars rover launch coming up and SpaceX launching satellites on a near-weekly basis.The next launch to look out for is, yet again, with a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket.
SpaceX has successfully launched more than 400 satellites, known as the Starlink constellation, as part of CEO Elon Musk’s plan to create a space-based internet using a network of, eventually, thousands of satellites.According to the 45th Weather Squadron forecast, SpaceX is targeting Thursday for the next Starlink launch from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.SpaceX is targeting 4:39 p.m.