You can watch the launch of the company's Starlink internet satellites and a huge direct-to-smartphone connection test craft on Saturday night.
The two-stage Falcon 9 is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday. On Sept. 11th, it starts at 09:30. You can watch it live at Space.com or directly from the company.
A new rocket-reuse record will be set when the 14th Falcon 9 first stage is launched. The ANASIS- II satellite for the South Korean military was launched by the booster in July 2020.
The Starlink megaconstellation was photographed.
On Saturday night, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will return to Earth. If everything goes according to plan, it will land on top of the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic.
The rocket's upper stage will keep on going. The Blue Walker 3 and 34 Starlinks will be deployed within 50 minutes after liftoff. According to the mission description, it will take five engine burns to make all this happen.
One of the company's most complex missions is being said by founder and CEO Musk.
Hundreds of thousands of people around the globe have access to Starlink. More than 3,200 Starlink satellites have been launched and the company has permission to put 12,000 more into the sky.
A Falcon 9 carrying 54 Starlinks is scheduled to launch late Sunday night from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, which is next to the Kennedy Space Center.
The Starlink Version 2 satellites, a bigger and more powerful variant, will come online next year. The craft in Blue Walker 3 has similar ambitions.
Blue Walker 3 is a test satellite that will be operated by a Texas-based company that plans to build a space-based cellular broadband network of its own.
Scott Wisniewski, chief strategy officer at AST SpaceMobile, said in an email that they are delighted to see the industry's excitement around the satellite-to-phone connection model.
The upcoming launch of the BlueWalker 3 test satellite will be a major validation of the market opportunity.
BlueWalker 3 will feature the largest commercial communications array ever deployed in low Earth orbit, according to representatives from AST Space Mobile. New Scientist reported that the satellite might be brighter than the moon.
The company has launched 40 missions in the last two years. The Starlink megaconstellation has been the focus of 26 of them.
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