SpaceX all set for a record-breaking rocket launch Tonight, Friday, April 12th, 2024.

SpaceX will launch one of its Falcon 9 boosters for a record 20th time tonight, Friday, highlighting once again the success of the company’s reusable rocket system.

Booster 1062, which took its first flight in November 2020, will lift off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, on Friday, April 12, on a mission to deploy 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit.

A live webcast of the record-breaking flight will begin on X (formerly Twitter) at 9:34 p.m. ET, about five minutes before liftoff.

Those tuning in will witness the Falcon 9 rocket climb into the sky for a record 20th time, along with stage separation and the deployment of SpaceX’s internet satellites. The webcast will also show the first-stage booster landing upright on the A Shortfall of Gravitas Drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean about eight minutes after launch, a feat that will pave the way for the rocket’s 21st flight.

A backup opportunity for Friday’s mission is available on Saturday should the targeted flight schedule require adjustment for any reason.

Booster 1062 last flew on March 16 and also holds the record for the fastest turnaround at 21 days following a flight on April 8, 2022. The rocket has previously launched GPS III Space Vehicle 04, GPS III Space Vehicle 05, the crewed Inspiration4 and Ax-1 flights, Nilesat 301, OneWeb Launch 17, ARABSAT BADR-8, and 12 Starlink missions.

Inspiration4 was a groundbreaking human spaceflight mission that took place in 2021. It marked the world’s first all-civilian mission to orbit Earth. The mission was named after the four-person crew, which included private citizens, and it raised awareness and over $240 million for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital¹².

Here are some key details about Inspiration4:

Purpose: The mission aimed to promote and raise funds for St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital.
Crew: The crew consisted of private citizens, with no professional astronauts on board.
Launch Date: The mission launched on September 15, 2021, aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39A²³.
Founder: The mission was the brainchild of Jared Isaacman, the billionaire CEO of Shift4 Payments. He purchased all four seats aboard the Dragon for a reported $50 million each, with the goal of flying the first all-civilian crew to space and raising funds for St. Jude⁴.

Inspiration4 represented a new era for human spaceflight and exploration, demonstrating that space travel is not limited to professional astronauts but can be achieved by private individuals with a passion for exploration and philanthropy.

Overview

Inspiration4 (stylized as Inspirati④n) was a 2021 human spaceflight operated by SpaceX on behalf of Shift4 Payments CEO Jared Isaacman. The mission launched the Crew Dragon Resilience on 16 September 2021 at 00:02:56 UTC from Kennedy Space Center‘s Launch Complex 39A atop a Falcon 9 launch vehicle. It placed the Dragon capsule into low Earth orbit with mission termination on 18 September 2021 at 23:06:49 UTC when Resilience splashed down in the Atlantic Ocean.

The trip was the first orbital spaceflight with only private citizens aboard and was part of a charitable effort on behalf of St. Jude’s in Memphis, Tennessee. Isaacman was named mission commander. The hospital selected two commercial astronauts: Hayley Arceneaux and Christopher Sembroski. Shift4 selected Sian Proctor who was named pilot.

The mission overlapped with the 55th anniversary of Gemini 11, which in September 1966 had an apogee of approximately 1,368 km (850 mi), the highest Earth orbit ever reached on a crewed flight. The Inspiration4 flight reached an orbital altitude of approximately 585 km (364 mi), the highest achieved since STS-103 in 1999 and the fifth-highest Earth orbital human spaceflight overall. By comparison, the International Space Station is at 408 km (254 mi). The Inspiration4 mission concluded with the first crewed splashdown in the Atlantic Ocean since Apollo 9 in 1969.

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