A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to liftoff from the West Coast with another batch of satellites for SpaceX’s Starlink network at 12:03 a.m. PST Friday (2:03 a.m. EST / 0803 UTC).

Falcon 9 로켓은 금요일 오전 12시 3분(태평양 표준시 기준)(오전 2시 3분 EST / 0803 UTC)에 SpaceX의 Starlink 네트워크를 위한 또 다른 위성 배치와 함께 서해안에서 이륙할 예정입니다.

The Starlink 7-8 mission will liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California and depart on a south-easterly direction, targeting a 183×178 mile (295×286 km) orbit, inclined at 53 degrees to the equator.

Starlink 7-8 임무는 캘리포니아 반덴버그 우주군 기지의 우주발사단지 4E에서 이륙하여 남동쪽 방향으로 출발하여 적도와 53도 기울어진 295×286km(183×178마일) 궤도를 목표로 합니다. .

Spaceflight Now will provide live coverage of Falcon 9 liftoff in our Launch Pad Live stream.

The first stage booster, making its 13th flight, previously launched the NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9 missions. Plus six previous Starlink delivery missions. After completing its burn, the first stage will land on the drone ship ‘Of Course I still Love You’ stationed about 400 miles downrange (644km) in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California.

If all goes according to plan, deployment of the 22 Starlink satellites will occur just over an hour after launch. This will be the 40th launch for a batch of the V2 Mini Starlink model since it was introduced earlier this year. This new version is much larger than the previous V1.5 satellites and is equipped with upgraded antennae and larger solar panels, and are capable of delivering four times more bandwidth.

SpaceX recently announced earlier this year it had signed up over two million subscribers in more than 60 countries for its Starlink internet service. Since 2019 it has launched 5,559 satellites according to statistics compiled by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who maintains a space flight database. Of those satellites 5,186 remain in orbit and 5,147 appear to be working normally.

SpaceX는 최근 올해 초 Starlink 인터넷 서비스에 대해 60개 이상의 국가에서 200만 명 이상의 가입자를 등록했다고 발표했습니다. 우주 비행 데이터베이스를 관리하고 있는 하버드-스미스소니언 천체물리학 센터의 천문학자 조너선 맥도웰이 집계한 통계에 따르면 2019년부터 5,559개의 위성을 발사했습니다. 이들 위성 중 5,186개는 궤도에 남아 있고 5,147개는 정상적으로 작동하는 것으로 보입니다.