SpaceX Completes Successful Falcon 9 Static Fire Test, Targets Starlink Launch Nov. 11 with Reused Fairing and Booster

SpaceX conducts successful static fire test of Falcon 9 first stage engines at approximately 12:30 p.m. EST on Nov. 5 with exhaust spewing out from the flame trench at Space Launch Complex-40 on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL, for Starlink-1 mission targeted for launch Nov. 11, 2019 at 9:51 a.m. EST.  Credit: Ken Kremer/kenkremer.com/spaceupclose.com 

5 November 2019

Ken Kremer - - For SpaceUpClose.com & RocketSTEM 

TITUSVILLE, FL- SpaceX engineers completed a lunchtime static fire test of their Falcon 9 rocket today Tuesday, Nov. 5 on Cape Canaveral and are now targeting Monday morning Nov. 11 for launch of the second batch of 60 Starlink broadband satellites to LEO – the mission also marks a major new milestone in rocket recycling by featuring the first time use of a reused payload fairing as well as a reused first stage booster.

The brief hold down hotfire test of the SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage rocket and engines raised vertical took place today at approximately 12:30 p.m. EST on Space Launch Complex-40 (SLC-40) on Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, FL under stormy skies on Florida’s Space Coast.

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