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File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\nFile: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n
SpaceX will pass another milestone in rocket reuse when it launches a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the overnight hours of Monday, Aug. 4. The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-30, features the company\u2019s 450th launch of a flight-proven booster.<\/p>\n
That stat is a combination of both Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. SpaceX first reused a Falcon booster with the launch of the SES-10 satellite on March 30, 2017, using the first-stage booster with the tail number 1021. That booster first flew on SpaceX\u2019s eighth Commercial Resupply Services mission, a cargo flight to the International Space Station, on April 8, 2016.<\/p>\n
The Starlink 10-30 mission meanwhile will use booster 1080, which will fly for a 21st time. Its previous flights include Axiom Space\u2019s second and third private astronaut missions; the European Space Agency\u2019s Euclid observatory; and 14 batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n
SpaceX aims to launch the Starlink 10-30 mission from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 1:03 a.m. EDT (0503 UTC) on Monday, Aug. 4. Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n
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The 45th Weather Squadron forecast an 85 percent chance for favorable weather at liftoff. Meteorologists said there\u2019s a chance that cumulus clouds or anvil clouds could spoil the launch attempt.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe low-pressure system with associated front has stalled and draped itself along southern Georgia. This system will continue to suppress the Bermuda High and keep the ridge axis to our south for today, which will keep us in a more southerly\/southwesterly flow,\u201d launch weather officers wrote on Sunday.<\/p>\n
\u201cIsolated thunderstorms and showers should be expected during the early to late afternoon hours that should dissipate much later this evening; however, slight instability and ample moisture still pose a chance for cumulus development in the overnight hours.\u201d<\/p>\n
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1080 will target a landing on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 131st landing on this vessel and the 485th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n
The overnight launch will be SpaceX\u2019s 69th Starlink launch of the year. SpaceX has launched more than 1,650 Starlink satellites so far in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":4306,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-116842","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114967578533505887","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116842","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=116842"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/116842\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4306"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=116842"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=116842"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=116842"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}