It’s launch day! SpaceX is on track to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A. Here’s what you need to know for launch: • Liftoff is scheduled for 8:37 p.m.
Sunday. • Approximately eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster will target an automatic landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean. • As of Friday, forecasters predicted 80% go conditions at the launch pad for liftoff. • This is the company’s 20th Starlink mission. • If successful, the company will have boosted more than 1,200 of the satellites to low-Earth orbit. • Starlink is SpaceX’s space-based internet service, which is in public beta testing for customers in the higher latitudes of North America.