What to know: 1st of back-to-back launch days to see SpaceX launch from Cape Canaveral
Get ready for back-to-back launch days, as two SpaceX rocket launches are planned approximately 24-hours from each other — and the second will be carrying astronauts.
Up first this morning will be the launch of the latest batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites, according to the Federal Aviation Administration. The Starlink 12-24 mission will lift off between 9:03 a.m. to 1:34 p.m. on Tuesday, June 10, from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
SpaceX has yet to provide an exact time for this launch, however the company usually launches in the beginning of the launch window. Weather at the Cape and the booster landing site, which will be out on a SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean, will play a role in timing.
No Space Coast sonic booms will be heard, as the first stage from this Starlink mission will land on the SpaceX drone ship.
This Starlink launch will travel southeast.
Then in less than 24-hours, get ready for another launch. The crewed launch of Axiom Space Mission 4 will lift off no earlier than 8 a.m. on June 11. Originally set to lift off this morning, the mission was delayed due to forecasted poor conditions in the accent corridor.
The astronaut crew of Axiom Space Mission 4 (Ax-4) will be catching up with the International Space Station, therefore the launch has an instantaneous launch window at 8 a.m. from NASA's Kennedy Space Center pad 39A.
The mission is the fourth crew flying for the private company, Axiom Space. Commanding this mission is former NASA astronaut, and record-breaking space flier, Peggy Whitson.
Joining Whitson are Shubhanshu Shukla from India, Sławosz Uznański-Wiśniewski from Poland, and Tibor Kapu from Hungary.
Check back for live updates beginning 90 minutes prior to lift off on this page.
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Brooke Edwards is a Space Reporter for Florida Today. Contact her at bedwards@floridatoday.com or on X: @brookeofstars.
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