UPDATE #2: On Monday, October 30 at 7:20 p.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.
This was the eighth flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06, Inmarsat I6-F2, CRS-28, Intelsat G-37, and now three Starlink missions.
UPDATE #1: The launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle with 23 Starlink satellites (Starlink-118 / Starlink 6-25) to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, was aborted on 30 October 2023, at 00:16 UTC (29 October, at 20:16 EDT). Credit: SpaceX
A pressure anomaly caused the scrub with another attempt planned in 24 hours.
On Sunday, October 29th at 2:00 a.m., PT, a SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 22 Starlink satellites to LEO from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
This was the seventh flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Space Development Agency’s Tranche 0 mission and now six Starlink missions.
The company had also scheduled a double header, with 23 Starlinks set to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station — however, a problem was detected by the launch team with the Falcon 9’s stage separation system and a la