SpaceX readies busy launch schedule
August 15, 2023
By Chris Forrester
Subject to the usual weather considerations, SpaceX has a busy few days ahead with its Starlink broadband satellites, as well as a launch for SES of two of its much-needed O3b/mPOWER craft.
On August 16th at 8.14pm Florida-time it is planning to place a batch of 22 Starlink satellites (Mission 6-10) from Space Launch complex 40. The Falcon 9 booster will be used for 13th time and past missions have included satellites for Eutelsat and Turksat 5B.
A few hours later, at 12.01am PTon August 17th and from California’s West Coast at Vandenberg Space Force Base, it plans to launch another batch of 21 Starlinks ((Mission 7.1) into orbit. This will be the 15th use of the Falcon 9 booster.
Another group of Starlink satellites will launch around August 31st from Vandenberg at a time yet to be confirmed.
Also – currently scheduled for August 27th – there will be a launch of two O3b/mPOWER satellites from Cape Canaveral.