Africana55 Radio 
English
Afrikaans
Albanian
Amharic
Arabic
Armenian
Azerbaijani
Basque
Belarusian
Bengali
Bosnian
Bulgarian
Catalan
Cebuano
Chichewa
Chinese (Simplified)
Chinese (Traditional)
Corsican
Croatian
Czech
Danish
Dutch
Esperanto
Estonian
Filipino
Finnish
French
Frisian
Galician
Georgian
German
Greek
Gujarati
Haitian Creole
Hausa
Hawaiian
Hebrew
Hindi
Hmong
Hungarian
Icelandic
Igbo
Indonesian
Irish
Italian
Japanese
Javanese
Kannada
Kazakh
Khmer
Korean
Kurdish (Kurmanji)
Kyrgyz
Lao
Latin
Latvian
Lithuanian
Luxembourgish
Macedonian
Malagasy
Malay
Malayalam
Maltese
Maori
Marathi
Mongolian
Myanmar (Burmese)
Nepali
Norwegian
Pashto
Persian
Polish
Portuguese
Punjabi
Romanian
Russian
Samoan
Scottish Gaelic
Serbian
Sesotho
Shona
Sindhi
Sinhala
Slovak
Slovenian
Somali
Spanish
Sudanese
Swahili
Swedish
Tajik
Tamil
Telugu
Thai
Turkish
Ukrainian
Urdu
Uzbek
Vietnamese
Welsh
Xhosa
Yiddish
Yoruba
ZuluThe sequence should look something like this.
SpaceX will once again attempt to launch its Falcon 9 rocket to deliver the latest batch of Starlink internet satellites into orbit.
Lift-off is scheduled for 10.54am local time (3.54pm BST) from the Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Saturday, weather permitting.
It is the tenth launch of Starlink satellites and will take the total number in orbit close to 600. SpaceX boss Elon Musk ultimately hopes to create a 12,000-strong constellation in order to beam high-speed internet back down to Earth.
The launch was initially scheduled for 26 June but was delayed by 12 days as SpaceX said its team "needed additional time for pre-launch checkouts". A second launch attempt on 8 July was scrubbed due to poor weather.
SpaceX will make a live stream of the launch available 15 minutes before launch, which will be available here. You can also follow The Independent's live blog below.
2020-07-11T13:49:41.156Z
Unlike Wednesday, it's not the weather that's scuppered it. The reason given for standing down today's launch is the same reason given when the first launch attempt was aborted in late June. Fourth time lucky?
2020-07-11T13:36:06.130Z
Forget that - launch cancelled!
Advertisement
2020-07-11T13:28:09.933Z
If it does go ahead, here's how SpaceX describes what to expect following the launch:
- Falcon 9 will lift off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.
- Falcon 9’s first stage previously supported Crew Dragon’s first demonstration mission to the International Space Station, launch of the RADARSAT Constellation Mission, and the fourth and seventh Starlink missions. Following stage separation, SpaceX will land Falcon 9’s first stage on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.
- The BlackSky Global spacecraft will deploy sequentially beginning 1 hour and 1 minute after liftoff, and the Starlink satellites will deploy approximately 1 hour and 32 minutes after liftoff. Starlink satellites will be deployed in a circular orbit, as was done on the first through fourth Starlink missions.
2020-07-11T13:08:46.883Z
60 per cent was the chance given by the US Space Force's 45th Weather Squadron at about this time ahead of Wednesday's scrubbed launch, so keep fingers crossed.
Advertisement
2020-07-11T12:46:48.150Z
With just over two hours to go until launch, the big question is whether the weather will hold up. Currently there's a 60 per cent chance of the launch going ahead.
2020-07-11T12:14:36.103Z
It is the third attempt at launching the latest batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, with the latest attempt on Wednesday cancelled due to bad weather.
SpaceX launch cancelled minutes before lift-off
SpaceX has been forced to cancel its latest launch due to adverse weather conditions. The private space firm scrubbed the lift off of its Falcon 9 rocket just minutes before its scheduled launch time, as rain clouds passed over the Kennedy Space Center in Cape Canaveral, Florida. The launch was already delayed, having previously been scheduled for 26 June. A new launch time is
2020-07-11T12:13:02.023Z
Welcome to The Independent's coverage of the SpaceX launch today. Liftoff is shortly before 4pm UK time, or 11am eastern time.
Please wait a moment for the live blog to load...
