You can watch the launch and landing of the rocket on a ship at sea.
The rocket is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida Tuesday at 6:57 p.m. The time is 2 pm You can watch it here at Space.com or via the company. About 10 minutes before liftoff, coverage is expected to start.
According to a U.S. Space Force forecast, 70% of the time the weather is good for liftoff.
The Starlink megaconstellation was photographed.
If everything goes according to plan, about nine minutes after launch, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will return to Earth for a landing on the A Shortfall of Gravitas, which will be located in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.
The Starlink satellites will be deployed about an hour after the launch of the Falcon 9 upper stage.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the world have access to Starlink. More than 2,950 Starlink satellites have been launched by Musk's company, but many more will likely go up, as well as 12,000 of the craft, which has been granted permission to be lofted.
Tuesday evening's launch will be the company's 21st Starlink mission of 2022. The previous mark for most missions in a year was 31.
A breakthrough in rocket reuse will help make Mars colonization feasible, according to the company.
The first stage of the Falcon 9 will fly on Tuesday, and it already has two flights under its belt. Three different Falcon 9 boosters have launched 13 missions to date, but it's far from the record of the company.
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