The Starlink launch had been delayed numerous times before, the latest being on Monday morning. Originally scheduled to take place on Monday, the mission was postponed to Tuesday and then to Wednesday. Then, it was pushed back to Thursday. However, further delays are possible. It is possible for the schedule to change as well. In the event of a delay, the crew of the ship will be able to make it to the new date.
The rescheduled launch is another example of SpaceX’s high-risk strategy. The company was already in the process of launching the first fleet of Starlink satellites on Saturday, but was forced to cancel the mission due to weather conditions on Sunday and Monday. The latest launch attempt for the company was supposed to deliver 60 of the internet satellites in orbit. Unfortunately, this mission was scrubbed and now has no new launch date.
The next launch of the company’s Falcon 9 rocket is planned for Aug. 18, 2020, and another one for the Starlink program is planned for Nov. 23. On Monday, SpaceX canceled the launch of the next fleet of Starlink satellites because of weather conditions. The company has not yet announced a new date for the mission, but the company is working hard to achieve 48 missions in 2020. There’s also a chance that the upcoming GPS III mission will go ahead on Tuesday.
The company was initially scheduled to launch the Starlink mission on Saturday, but the weather was so poor that it was postponed. Now, the mission will be rescheduled for the morning of Oct. 5 — the same time as the GPS III mission. The launch is not cancelled unless the weather cooperates with SpaceX. There’s still a chance for the company to complete 48 launches in 2020.
While the company had originally scheduled to launch the first batch of Starlink satellites on Saturday, the weather on Tuesday morning was not good for the mission. As a result, SpaceX’s next launch attempt will be on Tuesday, and the launch of the Sentinel-6 ocean-mapping satellite will be successful, but the ground-based sensor readings will be out of the range of the Sentinel-6 satellite.
The Starlink launch on Saturday had been successfully scrubbed due to poor weather, which is disappointing. It would have been the company’s twenty-third launch this year, but the weather was not favorable on Tuesday, so the next launch is not on track. If the weather is good on Tuesday, SpaceX will have a better chance of making a successful launch on Nov. 5. If the launch is delayed, it will miss a number of other missions, as well.
The next batch of Starlink satellites was scheduled to be launched today, but the launch was scrubbed just 30 minutes before it was scheduled to liftoff. While the previous launch was successful, the Starlink satellites were not. Instead, the rocket was landed successfully on Saturday. The Falcon 9 rocket carries 53 of the Starlink satellites. The new fleet of Starlink is part of the company’s plan to build a constellation of thousands of high-speed internet satellites.
The company had planned to launch the next fleet of Starlink satellites on Saturday, but it had to cancel that mission. Fortunately, the next flight of the Falcon 9 rocket is set for Nov. 23. It will be carrying 60 of the 57 satellites of the Starlink constellation, and it will also send the GPS III satellite to orbit. Further delays are not unusual. Moreover, the company will be sending the first of its three-Falcon 9s in the series of the mission.
While the Starlink launch had been canceled on Monday, the next one is scheduled for Oct. 5 as scheduled. Although the company had planned to send the next fleet of Starlink satellites on Sunday, the rocket’s failure was not due to the weather. Despite the problems, the company has a good chance to complete 48 launches this year. So far, its success rate has increased from a few years ago to several billion dollars.