Starting on Friday (June 17), SpaceX plans to launch three rockets from three different launch sites at NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida in three days.
On Saturday morning, a launch from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base will orbit a radar satellite for the German military, followed by a return to Florida's Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to launch a commercial communications satellite.
If successful, the launch triple-play will be SpaceX's closest back-to-back flights since the company flew three missions between Jan. 31 and Feb. 3 this year. With one of many flights, SpaceX is also hoping to achieve a new record.
The Falcon 9 rocket launching on Friday, known as Starlink 4-19, will make its thirteenth flight - the most of any Falcon 9 - when it lifts off from Pad 39A at 12:08 p.m. EDT (1608 GMT).
According to a mission description, the Falcon 9 first stage has flown 9 Starlink missions and 4 industrial flights.
Elon Musk, CEO of SpaceX, stated that the company's newest workhorse, the Falcon 9, Block 5 variant, was designed to fly up to ten times. According to an article published on June 10th in Aviation Week.
The company now intends to fly the Falcon 9 rockets at least 15 times before retiring them. According to the journal, SpaceX currently has 21 Falcon rockets in its possession.
That Falcon 9 flight elements are tested up to four times their fatigue life for 15 missions.
If Friday's launch goes smoothly, SpaceX will look to its launch pad at Vandenberg Area Drive Base in California to launch SARah 1, an artificial aperture radar distant sensing satellite tv for pc built by Airbus for the German navy. Liftoff is scheduled for 10 a.m. On Saturday, EDT (1400 GMT) (June 18).
"SARah is a fresh new operational reconnaissance system comprised of a number of satellites and a ground phase built on behalf of the German Bundeswehr," Airbus noted in a statement.
According to Spaceflight Now, once SARah 1 is in orbit, SpaceX's focus will shift back to Florida, where the company plans to launch the Globalstar FM15 communications satellite tv for pc for Globalstar.
At 12:30 a.m., the mission will launch from SpaceX's pad on the Cape Canaveral Area Drive Station on Sunday, June 19, at 0430 EDT (0430 GMT).
According to Spaceflight Now, Globalstar FM15 is a spare satellite tv for pc for Globalstar's communications and information relay satellite tv for pc community.
