CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION -- The weather is looking pretty good as SpaceX will send up more than 20 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX's Falcon 9 rocket will send up Starlink 12-20 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, stated the company.
The launch window will open at 9:24 p.m. ET and will close at 12:21 a.m. ET on Monday, March 03. That means SpaceX has a number of chances to launch the Starlink satellites during that window.
The 45th Weather Squadron gave a 90% chance of good liftoff conditions, with the only concerns being liftoff winds and cumulus cloud rules.
Find out more about the weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch.
If the launch is scrubbed, the next chance will be Monday at 10:04 p.m. ET.
This is the fifth mission for the Falcon 9's first-stage booster B1086. Here is a list of the four missions it has sent into space:
After the stage separation, the first-stage rocket will land on the droneship Just Read the Instructions that will be in the Atlantic Ocean.
The 21 satellites from the Starlink company, owned by SpaceX, will be heading to low-Earth orbit.
Once released from the Falcon 9 and they are in their orbit, they will provide internet service to many parts of Earth.
Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been recording Starlink satellites.