KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – Florida is in peak hurricane season with seven system swirling in the Atlantic Ocean or Gulf of Mexico, this makes launching rockets from the Space Coast tricky.SpaceX is targeting Thursday at 2:19 p.m.
to launch its 13th batch of Starlink satellites into orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket, according to the U.S. Space Force 45th Space Wing.
Four days out and there is a 60% chance of favorable launch weather from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center launchpad 39A.The primary problem for Thursday -- and the backup opportunity on Friday -- is Hurricane Sally, currently in the northeastern Gulf of Mexico and slowly churning toward the northwest.[TRENDING: ‘God, forgive me:’ Mom arrested on murder charge | Trump pushes for 2nd round.