SpaceX is preparing to launch a mid-morning Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday. The flight from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station will be its 37th launch of the year.
The Starlink 10-62 mission features 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites, which will be deployed into low Earth orbit about an hour after liftoff.
Launch is anticipated at 10:47 a.m. EDT (1447 UTC) from Space Launch Complex 40. The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a northeasterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.
The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a greater than 95 percent chance for favorable weather at liftoff with no specific meteorological concerns.
SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1078. This will be its 27th flight after launching missions, like NASA’s Crew-6, USSF-124, and 21 batches of Starlink satellites.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1078 will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas,’ positioned in the Atlantic Ocean. If successful, this will be the 148th landing on this vessel and the 590th booster recovery for SpaceX to date.
