Liftoff is scheduled for 2:02 a.m. ET on Wednesday (May 31).
But many more will go up in the coming weeks and months. The company already has permission to send 12,000 Starlink satellites to orbit, and it has applied for approval to launch another 30,000 on top of that.
Wednesday's Starlink launch will come just a few hours after a SpaceX Dragon capsule returns to Earth. That spacecraft, named Freedom, flew the privateto the space station for Houston company Axiom Space. Freedom undocked from the ISS on Tuesday morning and is expected to splash down off the Florida coast that same day Tuesday night, at 11:05 p.m. EDT .
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