It’s Launch Day! What you need to know about SpaceX’s Sunday launch - WKMG News 6 & ClickOrlando

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It’s launch day!

SpaceX is on track to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Pad 39A.

Here’s what you need to know for launch:

• Liftoff is scheduled for 8:37 p.m. Sunday.

• Approximately eight minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first-stage booster will target an automatic landing on a drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

• As of Friday, forecasters predicted 80% go conditions at the launch pad for liftoff.

• This is the company’s 20th Starlink mission.

• If successful, the company will have boosted more than 1,200 of the satellites to low-Earth orbit.

• Starlink is SpaceX’s space-based internet service, which is in public beta testing for customers in the higher latitudes of North America. After a $499 equipment fee, the roughly 100 to 150 Megabits per second connection costs $99 a month.

News 6 partner Florida Today reported on the story above

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