Liftoff is scheduled for 3:34 a.m. ET on Thursday (May 4).
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 56 of the company's Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on March 24, 2023.
If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth 8.5 minutes after liftoff, touching down on SpaceX's A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship, which will be stationed in the Atlantic Ocean off the Florida coast.The Falcon 9's upper stage will continue powering its way upward, eventually deploying the 56 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit 65 minutes after liftoff, if all goes according to plan.
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