SpaceX targeting early morning Falcon 9 launch May 10 from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station

Attention nighttime owls: SpaceX looks acceptable to motorboat a Falcon 9 rocket during the aboriginal greeting hours Saturday, May 10, within a 4½-hour model that extends past sunrise.

This motorboat model lasts from 2:28 a.m. until 6:59 a.m., a Federal Aviation Administration operations program advisory shows. SpaceX has yet to denote a people liftoff time.

The 229-foot rocket volition assistance disconnected from Launch Complex 40 astatine Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, soar successful a southeasterly trajectory, and deploy a payload of Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.

However — amid a rainy week across drought-impacted Brevard County — the National Weather Service forecast calls for mostly cloudy skies and a accidental of showers aft 2 a.m. May 10 astatine the subject installation. So inclement upwind could beryllium a factor.

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By mode of context, this ngo is slated arsenic the Space Coast's 40th orbital motorboat of the year from the Space Force installation and NASA's neighboring Kennedy Space Center. That's a afloat 2½ weeks earlier than the 40th motorboat of past year, which occurred connected May 28, 2024.

The Space Coast set a caller grounds of 93 orbital launches past year.

What's more, the upcoming May 10 Starlink ngo comes arsenic SpaceX officials question FAA biology approval to boost the company's fig of yearly Falcon rocket launches to 120.

Live FLORIDA TODAY Space Team sum of the aboriginal greeting motorboat volition footwear disconnected astir 90 minutes earlier the people liftoff clip at floridatoday.com/space.

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Rick Neale is a Space Reporter astatine FLORIDA TODAY. Contact Neale astatine Rneale@floridatoday.com. Twitter/X: @RickNeale1

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