SpaceX Will Launch 17th Falcon Rocket from Florida

Launch of 22 starlink satellites via Falcon 9 rocket (photo: Twitter @SpaceX)

JAKARTA - SpaceX plans to launch the Falcon 9 rocket for the 17th time on September 19 at 10.47 p.m. EDT or 09.47 a.m. Western Indonesian Time (WIB) on September 20 if measured in Indonesian time.

Falcon 9 will be launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida and can be watched live via the official SpaceX account on platform X, formerly Twitter. This live broadcast is expected to air five minutes before the launch.

Quoted from Space, Falcon 9 will launch with 22 Starlink internet satellites. After 8.5 minutes of launch, the Falcon 9 is expected to return to earth and land on the SpaceX drone ship called A Shortfall of Gravitas which is in the sea.

Apart from successfully launching a rocket for the 17th time, the scheduled launch of the Falcon 9 will mark another record from SpaceX, namely breaking the record for the orbital mission that SpaceX deployed this year.

SpaceX has completed its 65th orbital mission following the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket and the deployment of 22 Starlink satellites into orbit from the Cape Canaveral Space Station, Florida on Saturday, September 16.

With this launch, SpaceX is determined to build the Starlink megaconstellation with tens of thousands of satellites. To date, SpaceX has built 4,700 operational satellites.

The number of satellites will continue to increase because SpaceX has been approved to deploy 12,000 satellites. SpaceX has also applied for a new agreement to increase the number of these satellites to 30,000.