{"id":263731,"date":"2026-01-02T17:09:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263731\/"},"modified":"2026-01-02T17:09:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-02T17:09:07","slug":"spacex-gets-ready-for-floridas-first-launch-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/263731\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX gets ready for Florida\u2019s first launch of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><b>CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION<\/b>\u00a0\u2014 For those who can stay up late, you will be able to witness Florida\u2019s first rocket launch for 2026.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><b>What You Need To Know<\/b><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The Starlink 6-88 mission will be Florida&#8217;s first launch of 2026.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-6-88\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX stated that its Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> will be leaving Cape Canaveral Space Force Station\u2019s Space Launch Complex 40 early Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It will be sending up the Starlink 6-88 mission.<\/p>\n<p>The launch window opens at midnight and will close at 3:17 a.m. ET.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/falcon9_crewdragon_launch_weather_criteria_fact_sheet.pdf?emrc=6cc43d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><b>The maiden launch<\/b><\/p>\n<p>This will be the first launch for B1101, the name of this Falcon 9\u2019s first-stage booster.<\/p>\n<p>After the stage separation, it will land on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, which will be out in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/02-17-2023_SpaceX_Booster_Seperation_Landing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\n<b>About the mission<\/b><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX owns the Starlink company, which will see its 29 satellites go to low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Once deployed and in their orbit with the thousands of other Starlinks, they will provide internet service to many parts of the little round Earth.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been documenting Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Before this launch,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">McDowell recorded the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>9,395 are in orbit<\/li>\n<li>8,157 are in operational orbit<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION\u00a0\u2014 For those who can stay up late, you will be able to witness&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":263732,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[135312,135310,11418,89168,18,19,109800,135311,17,135309,5,21237,133,451,63415,82,7,109801],"class_list":{"0":"post-263731","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-anthony-leone","9":"tag-app-space","10":"tag-app-top-stories","11":"tag-brevard-county","12":"tag-eire","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-instagram-bn9","15":"tag-instagram-n13","16":"tag-ireland","17":"tag-new-space-race","18":"tag-news","19":"tag-orlando","20":"tag-science","21":"tag-space","22":"tag-tampa","23":"tag-technology","24":"tag-top-stories","25":"tag-trending-topics"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115826613604328294","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263731","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=263731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263731\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}