SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into LEO from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, for the Starlink mega-constellation, on Monday, April 22 from 3:40 – 7:40 PDT. However the weather forecast for tomorrow is questionable… as noted by the 45th Weather Squadron’s forecast, “all [weather models] show a lingering low level cloud deck that may be just deep enough to pose launch weather concerns. The main weather threat has shifted towards the northerly wind surge driven by the gradient around the departing low. Consensus is that winds will be highest at the beginning of the primary launch window Monday evening, with speeds slowly subsiding through the window.”

As a result, mission managers will be dealing with low clouds and high winds, especially in the early hours of the launch window, with improving conditions as the evening progresses.

Landing is planned to be on the autonomous spaceport drone ship (ASDS) ‘Just Read The Instructions’ (JRTI) which is stationed in the Atlantic Ocean northeast of the Bahamas.

SpaceX to launch Starlink satellite Group 6-53 on Monday

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 is set to launch a batch of Starlink satellites into LEO from Space Launch Complex 40, Cape Canaveral, for the Starlink mega-constellation, on Monday, April 22 from 3:40 – 7:40 PDT.

The $52 million launch is part of SpaceX’s project for space-based Internet communication system.

Weather forecast calls for a temperature of 69°F, broken clouds, 75% cloud cover and a wind speed of 24mph.

Space Launch Complex 40 has witnessed the launch of 236 rockets, including 236 orbital launch attempts, while Cape Canaveral, FL, USA, has been the site for 947 rocket launches.