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Boeing Starliner Astronaut Splashdown, SpaceX start planned on Tuesday

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  • SpaceX is scheduled to start a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station between 2:09 p.m. and 6:40 p.m. on Tuesday.
  • The NASA astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams are supposed to return to Earth after a stay in the international space station.
  • The astronauts will be planned in a SpaceX kite capsule around 17:57 Edt on Tuesday off the Florida coast.

A SpaceX Starlink rocket launch by Cape Canaveral and the splashdown return of Boeing Starliner Astronauts Butch Wilmore and Sununi Williams are scheduled to occur on Tuesday afternoon.

First, SpaceX is aimed at a 4½-hour start window from 2:09 p.m. to 6:40 p.m. to start a Falcon 9 from the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, advice on the operation of the aviation management.

Then the NASA officials expect that Wilmore, Williams and the other two crew 9 members step back into the earth’s atmosphere in a SpaceX kite capsule before they spray down the Florida coast around 5:57 p.m. The crews select the Sunshine State Splashdown location based on the weather conditions, the willingness of the recreation team, the sea states and other factors.

For Florida Today Space Team Live Reporting on the Starlink Start and the Splashdown, see Floridatoday.com/space to call up blog updates from 90 minutes before each event.

SpaceX has not yet announced a precise downturn for the Starlink 12-25 mission on Tuesday. The Falcon 9 will travel on a southeastern trajectory and use another payload of Starlink-Internet-beam satellites in low-earth circulation.

The 45th weather squadron of the space force forecast 90% of the probability of the weather for “Go for Launch” during the window on Tuesday afternoon. Infloff winds can be a meteorological risk, and the forecast also led a moderate risk of a bad recreational weather for the SpaceX drone ship in the Atlantic Ocean.

The upswing is raised as a 24th Orbital rocket start of the year in Florida from the Space Force Installation and the Kennedy Space Center of NASA.

Butch and Sununi to return home from ISS

Wilmore, Williams, Nasa -Astronaut Nick Hague and Roscosmos Cosmonauut Aleksandr Gorbunov should go to a kite capsule on board at 1:05 a.m. on Tuesday at 1:05 a.m. and then start a deorbit burn around 5:11 p.m.

“The NASA and SpaceX got to know each other on Sunday to assess the weather and splashdown conditions off Florida’s coast for the return of the agency’s crew from the international space. a press release from NASA.

“The updated return goal continues to give members of the Crew space station time to fulfill handover tasks and at the same time offer operational flexibility before less favorable weather conditions are expected for later a week,” says the press release.

Wilmore and Williams started on June 5th from KSC and piloted the Boeing Starliner during his first occupation room -but loyal misalignment and helium leak. After the duo had docked with the ISS and joined this crew, the NASA officials finally decided to bring the Starliner spaceship home on board in September without people.

The SpaceX crew-10 NASA started on Friday evening from KSC in a lowland with low earth on board a Falcon 9. The arrival of the four crew members temporarily increased the number of ISS employees to 11. The crews carry out a “transfer period” to ensure that the operation on the all -round outpost is continued smoothly.

The latest news from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and Nasas Kennedy Space Center can be found at Floridatoday.com/space.

Rick Neale is a space reporter at Florida today. Contact Neal at [email protected]. Twitter/x: @Rickneale1

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