Weekend SpaceX mission from Florida will break a launch record. Here’s what to know

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Launch window open from 10:23 p.m. Saturday to 2:47 a.m. Sunday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – SpaceX plans to launch another Falcon 9 rocket from Florida late Saturday in what would mark a new record for launches performed on the Space Coast in a year’s time.

Starlink Group 6-24 is scheduled to launch from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (SFS) during a window of 10:23 p.m. Saturday to 2:47 a.m. Sunday.

The mission will be the 58th to launch so far this year between Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral SFS. Last year, those same launch pads saw 57 rockets go skyward, which at the time smashed the previous record of 31 orbital launches.

SpaceX has accounted for all but four of the 57 rocket launches from the Cape this year. The exceptions were Relativity Space, launching its 3D-printed Terran 1 rocket — the world’s first — during a March 22 demonstration mission and United Launch Alliance launching rockets on June 22, Sept. 10 and Oct. 6, Florida Today reported.

The 45th Weather Squadron has not issued a launch forecast for Starlink Group 6-24 at the time of this report.

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