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It's the 77th launch by SpaceX of its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets from both its Florida and California launch pads. It's also flown two orbital test missions of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy rocket from Texas with a third awaiting approval to launch from the Federal Aviation Administration.
Now pushed to Sunday, SpaceX has a second Starlink launch slated from neighboring Kennedy Space Center.
That Falcon 9 is now set to lift off with 23 Starlink satellites from KSC's Launch Pad 39-A targeting targeting 7:21 a.m. Sunday during a four-hour window that runs from 6:59–10:59 a.m.
Space Launch Delta 45's weather squadron forecasts a 90% chance for good conditions.
Its first-stage booster is making its 17th flight and will attempt a landing on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic.
The original Saturday lineup would have bested SpaceX's previous record for time between launches from the Space Coast launch pads. They were aiming to fly within two hours and 31 minutes of one another.
That would have been better than SpaceX's previous record turnaround, which came Dec. 28, 2023, when a Falcon Heavy launch from KSC was followed by a Falcon 9 at Cape Canaveral in two hours and 54 minutes.
SpaceX doesn't hold the all-time record, though.
The shortest times between launches on the Space Coast came during four Gemini program missions that flew in 1966. Those featured double launches from two different pads on what was then Cape Kennedy.
Those would send crew up in the Gemini capsule on Titan rockets about 100 minutes after Atlas boosters had sent up Agena Target Vehicles with which they would rendezvous in space.
The record remains the two launches from Gemini 11, which sent up astronauts Pete Conrad and Richard Gordon from Launch Complex 19 only 97 minutes and 25 seconds after the Agena launch from Launch Complex 14 just over 1 mile to the south.
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