A SpaceX Falcon nine rocket will fly for a record-breaking 14th time on Saturday night time (Sept. 10), launching 34 of the organization's Starlink net satellites and a massive direct-to-telephone connectivity take a look at the spacecraft to orbit, and you could watch it stay.

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The two-level Falcon nine, crowned with the Starlinks and AST SpaceMobile's Blue Walker three take a look at satellite tv for pc, is scheduled to boost off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center (KSC) in Florida Saturday at nine:20 p.m. EDT (0120 GMT on Sept. 11). Watch it stay right here at Space.com, courtesy of SpaceX, or at once through the organization (opens in new tab). You also can watch a stay webcast from AST SpaceMobile(opens in a new tab) below.

The liftoff may be the 14th for this unique Falcon nine first level, placing a brand new rocket-reuse record. According to a SpaceX task description(opens in new tab), the booster additionally helped release SpaceX's first-ever astronaut task, the Demo-2 flight to the International Space Station (ISS), in May 2020; the ANALYSIS-II satellite tv for pc for the South Korean navy in July 2020; the robot CRS-21 shipment task to the ISS in December 2020; the Transporter-1 and Transporter three rideshare flights in January 2021 and January 2022, respectively; and 8 Starlink missions. The Falcon nine first level will come lower back to Earth for but any other touchdown on Saturday night time. It will make a pinpoint landing atop SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship withinside the Atlantic Ocean 8. five mins after liftoff if all is going in line with the plan. The rocket's higher level, meanwhile, will hold powering its manner to orbit. It's scheduled to set up Blue Walker three simply beneath neath 50 mins after liftoff and the 34 Starlinks an hour and 14 mins later. Making all this manifest would require 5 engine burns — extra than on every other Falcon nine task, in line with the SpaceX task description. "One of our maximum complicated missions," organization founder and CEO Elon Musk stated through Twitter on Friday(opens in new tab) (Sept. nine). Starlink is SpaceX's broadband constellation, which already gives providers to loads of hundreds of humans across the globe. The organization has released extra than three, two hundred Starlink satellites thus far and plans to loft many extras; it has permission to position 12,000 Starlink craft into orbit and has implemented permission for as many as 30,000 extra satellites. Indeed, but any other Starlink batch will cross up this weekend if all is going to plan: A Falcon nine sporting fifty-four Starlinks is scheduled to release past due Sunday night time from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, that's round the corner to KSC. Late final month, SpaceX founder and CEO Elon Musk introduced an address for T-Mobile to offer connectivity at once to smartphones through the use of Starlink Version 2 satellites, a larger and extra effective variation scheduled to return back on-line the subsequent year. Saturday night time's release will characteristic a craft with comparable aims in Blue Walker three. Blue Walker, three is a take a look at satellite tv for pc to be able to be operated through Texas-primarily based totally organization AST SpaceMobile, which plans to construct a space-primarily based totally cell broadband community of its own.