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CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE STATION — The weather is usually smart as SpaceX introduced more than 20 Starlink satellites Thursday morning.
The Falcon 9 rocket introduced the Starlink 10-3 project from Space Launch Complex 40 on the Cape Canaveral Space Station, SpaceX said.
The launch window will open at 7:14 a. m. ET and will end at 11 a. m. ET.
The 45th Weather Squadron gave a 90% chance of smart takeoff conditions, with fear being the rule of cumulus clouds.
In the event of a problem, SpaceX planned to launch its Starlink satellites on Friday at that time.
For this mission, SpaceX is deploying one of the former top-tier Falcon nine boosters, the B1062. It has an impressive 21 missions under its belt, adding two manned flights and a giant number of Starlink launches.
After the levels separated, the first level rocket returned to Earth and landed on the Just Read the Instructions unmanned ship that will be in the Atlantic Ocean.
Starlink, owned by SpaceX, will see 23 of its satellites move into low-Earth orbit to supply a network to many regions of our small circular world.
Dr. Jonathan McDowell of the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics recorded the Starlink satellites and prior to this mission documented the following: