SpaceX double launch update: Florida launches will not occur Friday - USA TODAY

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX is present acceptable for launches Friday and Saturday, reversing people connected a same-day motorboat program that could person made history for the tightest turnaround betwixt 2 launches.

SpaceX announced it is prioritizing the Falcon 9 motorboat of the O3b mPOWER ngo connected Friday, and is targeting a Saturday motorboat of the company's own Starlink satellites. Both launches were initially acceptable for Friday, potentially little than 35 minutes apart, and could've acceptable a grounds for the quickest turnaround betwixt orbital launches from Florida's Space Coast, which has stood since November 11, 1966.

The Friday launch from Pad 40 astatine Cape Canaveral Space Force Station volition loft a brace of net communications satellites for its lawsuit SES, a Luxembourg-based satellite operator. An 87-minute liftoff window was acceptable to unfastened astatine 4:21 p.m. ET.

Then, connected Saturday, astatine adjacent Pad 39-A astatine Kennedy Space Center a 2nd Falcon 9 volition nonstop different batch of SpaceX's ain internet-beaming Starlink satellites to orbit.

Both missions were expected to diagnostic first-stage Falcon 9 booster landings connected abstracted drone ships stationed successful the Atlantic Ocean a abbreviated clip aft liftoff.

SpaceX did not respond to inquiries from Florida Today, portion of the USA TODAY Network, for this story.

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The company's quickest turnaround betwixt launches stands astatine astir 15 hours. That grounds goes backmost to December 2021.

SpaceX flew a Falcon 9 from Vandenberg Space Force Base successful California connected Dec. 18 that twelvemonth taking a stack of Starlink satellites to orbit. Then 15 hours later, from Pad 40 astatine Cape Canaveral Space Force Station a 2nd Falcon 9 lofted the Turksat 5B ngo for Turkey.

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First motorboat scheduled for Friday

• Company / Agency: SpaceX for SES.
• Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9.
• Location: Pad40 astatine Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
• Launch Time: 4:21-5:49 p.m.
• Trajectory: Northeast.
• Weather: 90% "go."
• Landing: Drone ship.
• Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space.
• About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket volition motorboat the O3b mPower 1 and 2 satellites for Luxembourg outer relation SES. The satellites are chiefly designed to supply net connectivity.

Second motorboat scheduled for Friday

• Company / Agency: SpaceX Starlink interior mission.
• Rocket: SpaceX Falcon 9.
• Location: Pad39-A astatine Kennedy Space Center.
• Launch Time: 4:54-5:13 p.m.
• Trajectory: Northeast.
• Weather: 90% "go."
• Landing: Drone ship.
• Live coverage: Starts 90 minutes before liftoff at floridatoday.com/space
• About: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket volition motorboat a batch of the company's internet-beaming Starlink satellites to orbit.