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## Launch Recap

**Launch recap:** **Scroll down to review live coverage of the Tuesday, April 23, liftoff of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral that marked the 300th Falcon booster landing.**

Welcome to FLORIDA TODAY’s Space Team live coverage of tonight’s SpaceX Starlink 6-53 mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

SpaceX officials postponed the mission’s initial Monday night launch window while facing a poor weather forecast. Now, SpaceX is targeting 6:17 p.m. EDT to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

The Falcon 9 will deploy another batch of 23 Starlink internet satellites, which are packed inside the fairing atop the 230-foot rocket.

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## No Central Florida sonic booms are expected during this Starlink 6-53 mission. After soaring skyward along a southeasterly trajectory, the rocket’s first-stage booster will target landing aboard a drone ship out at sea 8½ minutes after liftoff.

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## SpaceX Falcon 9 booster lands

**Update 6:25 p.m.:** The Falcon 9 first-stage booster just landed aboard SpaceX’s drone ship Just Read the Instructions out on the Atlantic Ocean, completing its ninth mission.

## Liftoff!

**Update 6:17 p.m.:** SpaceX has just launched the Falcon 9 rocket carrying 23 Starlink satellites from Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

## SpaceX launch webcast begins

**Update 6:12 p.m.:** SpaceX’s launch webcast hosted on X (formerly Twitter) is now posted above, right below the countdown clock.

Liftoff is scheduled in five minutes from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

## SpaceX booster to land on drone ship

**Update 6:04 p.m.:** Tonight’s mission marks the ninth flight for this Falcon 9 first-stage booster, SpaceX reported.

The booster previously launched Crew-6, SES O3b mPOWER, USSF-124 and five Starlink missions.

Following stage separation, crews expect the booster to land on the drone ship Just Read the Instructions out on the Atlantic Ocean 8 minutes, 31 seconds after liftoff.

## SpaceX: Systems and weather looking good

**Update 5:56 p.m.:** “All systems and weather are looking good for today’s launch from Florida,” SpaceX officials announced in a tweet.

## SpaceX launch prep underway in Brevard

**Update 5:50 p.m.:** Brevard County Emergency Management officials have activated the agency’s launch operations support team ahead of SpaceX’s upcoming Falcon 9 launch.

## SpaceX Falcon 9 fueling now underway

**Update 5:43 p.m.:** Falcon 9 fueling procedures are now underway at Launch Complex 40, SpaceX just announced.

That means tonight’s Starlink countdown is now locked in to lift off at 6:17 p.m. without any delays, or else the launch must be postponed.

## SpaceX launch countdown timeline

**Update 5:29 p.m.:** Following is a breakdown of SpaceX’s behind-the-scenes countdown timeline. T-minus:

– **38 minutes:** SpaceX launch director verifies “go” for propellant load.
– **35 minutes:** Rocket-grade kerosene and first-stage liquid oxygen loading begins.
– **16 minutes:** Second-stage liquid oxygen loading begins.
– **7 minutes:** Falcon 9 begins engine chill prior to launch.
– **1 minute:** Command flight computer begins final prelaunch checks; propellant tank pressurization to flight pressure begins.
– **45 seconds:** SpaceX launch director verifies “go” for launch.
– **3 seconds:** Engine controller commands engine ignition sequence to start.
– **0 seconds:** Liftoff.

## SpaceX targets weekend launch doubleheader

**Update 5:15 p.m.:** SpaceX is targeting back-to-back rocket launch attempts Saturday and Sunday from the Space Coast, National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency navigational warnings indicate.

SpaceX has yet to announce these missions. But Saturday night, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket may launch Galileo satellites for the European Space Agency’s global navigation system between 8:29 p.m. and 9:11 p.m.

Then Sunday, another Starlink launch window will open from 5:50 p.m. to 10:21 p.m.


## Space Force: 95%-plus odds of good weather

**Update 4:54 p.m.:** The Space Force’s 45th Weather Squadron pegged tonight’s odds of “go for launch” weather at greater than 95%.

For the latest news and launch schedule from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, visit floridatoday.com/space.

Rick Neale is a Space Reporter at FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale at [email protected]. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1.

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