Michael Wall is a Senior Space Writer with Space.com and joined the team in 2010. He primarily covers exoplanets, spaceflight and military space, but has been known to dabble in the space art beat. His book about the search for alien life, 'Out There,' was published on Nov. 13, 2018.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is set to launch 23 Starlink internet satellites tonight , on the second of two planned missions for the day.tonight at 7:45 p.m. EDT . If the Falcon 9 can't get off the ground on time, seven backup opportunities are available, from 8:17 p.m. EDT to 10:47 p.m. EDT , according to afor a vertical landing about 8.5 minutes after launch on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
Tonight's launch is the second half of a planned Sunday Starlink doubleheader. SpaceX was scheduled to send 22 Starlink craft skyward from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base early Sunday morning. Starlink is SpaceX's broadband megaconstellation, which beams internet service down to customers around the world. SpaceX has launched more than 5,000 Starlink satellites to LEO to date, and many more liftoffs are coming: The company has permission to deploy 12,000 of the spacecraft, and it has applied for approval for another 30,000 on top of that.
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