SpaceX has a very busy evening planned.
Elon Musk's company aims to launch three of its Falcon 9 rockets today (March 30), in a flurry of orbital activity from both coasts that could take place roughly five hours apart.
One of the rockets is scheduled to lift off from NASA's Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 5:52 pm EDT (2152 GMT) during a four-hour window to send the Eutelsat 36D communications satellite into geostationary transfer orbit.
Next up are two missions dedicated to building SpaceX's Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit (LEO). One will launch 23 Starlink satellites from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida during a one-hour window that opens at 9:02 p.m. EDT (0102 GMT on March 31). Another will send 22 Starlink craft from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California during a four-hour window that opens at 10:30 pm EDT (7:30 pm California time; 0230 GMT on March 31).
You can watch all three launches through SpaceX's account on X. Coverage of the Eutelsat 36D mission will begin 15 minutes before the window opens, and coverage of the Starlink flights will begin five minutes before the respective windows open.
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All three missiles will have rocket landings on ships at sea; In each case, Falcon 9's first stage touched down 8.5 minutes after liftoff.
It will be the 12th landing for the Eutelsat 36D Falcon 9, and the 18th and 15th for the rockets to launch the two Starlink missions.
Once in geostationary orbit about 22,000 miles (35,400 kilometers) from Earth, Eutelsat 36D will provide TV broadcast services to customers in Europe, Russia and Africa. According to EverydayAstronaut.com.
The 45 satellites going up in today's two Starlink flights will join, meanwhile More than 5,600 of their active broadband brethren In LEO.
SpaceX already has experience with back-to-back-to-back launches. Just last month, the company launched the Starlink satellites, the classified USSF-124 mission for the US Space Force, and the IM-1 private moon landing mission within 24 hours.
All three of those missions involved Falcon 9 rockets.
