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).

獵鷹 9 號火箭計畫於太平洋標準時間週五中午 12:03（美國東部標準時間凌晨 2:03 / 世界標準時間 0803）從西海岸升空，搭載 SpaceX 星鍊網路的另一批衛星。

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.

星鏈 7-8 任務將從加州范登堡太空部隊基地的 4E 號航天發射場發射，向東南方向出發，目標軌道為 183×178 英里（295×286 公里），與赤道傾斜 53 度。

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

Spaceflight Now 將在我們的發射台直播中直播獵鷹 9 號升空的情況。

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.

第一級助推器進行了第 13 次飛行，之前曾執行過 NROL-87、NROL-85、SARah-1、SWOT、Transporter-8、Transporter-9 任務。加上之前的六次星鏈傳送任務。完成燃燒後，第一階段將降落在「當然我仍然愛你」號無人船上，該船駐紮在下加利福尼亞州海岸附近的太平洋下游約 400 英里（644 公里）處。

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.

如果一切按計畫進行，22 顆星鏈衛星的部署將在發射後一個多小時內完成。這將是 V2 Mini Starlink 型號自今年稍早推出以來第 40 次推出。這個新版本比之前的 V1.5 衛星大得多，並配備了升級的天線和更大的太陽能電池板，能夠提供四倍的頻寬。

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.

SpaceX 今年稍早宣布，其 Starlink 網路服務已在 60 多個國家簽約超過 200 萬訂戶。根據哈佛史密森天文物理中心天文學家喬納森·麥克道爾 (Jonathan McDowell) 編制的統計數據，自 2019 年以來，它已發射了 5,559 顆衛星，該中心維護著一個太空飛行資料庫。其中 5,186 顆衛星仍在軌道上，5,147 顆似乎運作正常。