ORLANDO, Fla. — SpaceX’s reusability juggernaut keeps rolling with a planned Space Coast launch Saturday night that would mark the 200th time the company has relied on a previously launched booster to get its payloads to space. A Falcon 9 rocket flying on the Starlink 6-18 mission carrying 22 of its Starlink satellites is set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch .
so there s very little civilian air traffic flying overhead. so from this location here, we can get the satellites into the orbits they need to be. also, because of our location, we re two and a half kilometres away from human houses, human habitats, so it s a very safe location. this is the first of three launch pads, with the site hoping to get their orbital licence in the next few weeks. eventually, up to 30 rockets could be launched each year carrying a number of small satellites, and that s attracted interest from companies across the globe. there are so many applications from space. the biggest two dimensions are connectivity and earth observation, right? we are talking lots about climate change and understanding of our planet, but we are not even halfway there for understanding it properly. so we really need a live data climate model of our planet and that s only possible with supervision and monitoring from space.
so when we launch, we re launching over sea. we ve got a clear trajectory into the orbits that we re trying to get to and the airspace itself is very uncongested. so there s very little civilian air traffic flying overhead. so from this location here, we can get the satellites into the orbits they need to be. also, because of our location, we re two and a half kilometres away from human houses, human habitats, so it s a very safe location. this is the first of three launch pads, with the site hoping to get their orbital licence in the next few weeks. eventually, up to 30 rockets could be launched each year, carrying a number of small satellites, and that s attracted interest from companies across the globe. there are so many applications from space. the biggest two dimensions are connectivity and earth observation, right? we are talking lots about climate change and understanding of our planet, but we are not
into the orbits that we re trying to get to and the airspace itself is very uncongested. so there s very little civilian air traffic flying overhead. so from this location here, we can get the satellites into the orbits they need to be. also, because of our location, we re two and a half kilometres away from human houses, human habitats, so it s a very safe location. this is the first of three launch pads, with the site hoping to get their orbital licence in the next few weeks. eventually, up to 30 rockets could be launched each year, carrying a number of small satellites, and that s attracted interest from companies across the globe. there are so many applications from space. the biggest two dimensions are connectivity and earth observation, right? we are talking lots about climate change and understanding our planet, but we are not even halfway there of understanding it properly.