KENNEDY SPACE CENTER, Fla. – A week after it sent four astronauts to the International Space Station for the first time, SpaceX is shooting for a bicoastal doubleheader: Launching a NASA Earthobservation satellite Saturday morning from California and another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida that night, according to News 6 partner Florida Today.SpaceX is slated to launch NASA’s Sentinel 6-Michael Freilich oceanography satellite from Vandenberg Air Force base at 9:17 a.m.
PST.The satellite is named in honor of the late director of NASA’s Earth science division. It’s the first West Coast launch in a year a half and Californians will also be treated to a booster return on land.Only 10 hours later at 10:17 p.m.EST, SpaceX is set to.