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SpaceX is set to send up another Starlink launch from Kennedy Space Center on Sunday night while prepping for a unique cargo launch from Cape Canaveral now targeting Tuesday. A Falcon 9 rocket is set to lift off at 6:15 p.m. Eastern from KSC’s Launch Complex 39-A on a southerly trajectory carrying another 23 satellites for the growing internet constellation. Backup launch options run through 9:55 p.m. and on Monday beginning at 5:39 p.m. The first-stage booster is making its 18th flight including Inspiration4 and Ax-1, and will make a recovery landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas. ......

SpaceX is set to send up another Starlink launch from Cape Canaveral on Sunday night. A Falcon 9 carrying 23 of the internet Satellites is targeting a 7:27 p.m. liftoff from Canaveral’s Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40, but has multiple launch opportunities through 11:25 p.m. The launch, which was delayed from a Saturday attempt, has a southerly trajectory so will be more visible down the Florida coast. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts 85% chance for good conditions, which declines to 20% in the event of a 24-hour delay. The first-stage booster is flying its 12th......

SpaceX may not have a moonbound rocket on the pad, but it is aiming to send up its second launch of the year from the Space Coast on Sunday afternoon. United Launch Alliance is set to lift off with its first about 10 hours later. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 more of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites is targeting a 4 p.m. Eastern liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a four-hour window with backup options on Monday beginning at 4:01 p.m. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts an 80% chance for good conditions during the initial window, but only......

SpaceX held off a Sunday night attempt to send up its fifth Falcon Heavy launch of the year, delayed it for a day and now aims for Monday night. Flying for only the ninth time ever, the Falcon Heavy is slated to lift off from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Pad 39-A during a 10-minute window that opens at 8:14 p.m. A backup during the same window is available Tuesday night. Weather concerns were an issue for Sunday night and SpaceX said it would take the extra time to complete additional prelaunch checkouts. The payload for the mission dubbed USSF-52 is the X-37B Orbital Test Vehicle on its seve......

ORLANDO, Fla. — Another Space Coast night launch Friday marked the 60th liftoff from the Space Coast for the year, this time with a booster flying for a record 18th time. A Falcon 9 carrying another 23 of Elon Musk’s company’s Starlink satellites took off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:37 p.m. The historic booster that had previously flown on the Crew Demo-2 mission that took up the first astronauts on SpaceX’s Crew Dragon back in May 2020 and has since flown on the ANASIS-11, CRS-21, Transporter-1, Transporter-3 and now 13 Starlink missions. It made ano......

MERRITT ISLAND, Florida — Amazon and Jeff Bezos have big plans to launch thousands of satellites from the Space Coast in an effort to play catchup and compete with Elon Musk and SpaceX’s Starlink service. To speed up the process, it’s going to build a $120 million facility to prep those satellites just miles from the launch pad. The company announced it has agreed to expand into Florida with its Project Kuiper, the name for its future broadband satellite network, by setting up a 100,000-square-foot processing facility at a nearly 80-acre site at the former Shuttle Landing Facility at Kennedy S......