A redesigned SpaceX drone ship is going around 630 kilometers (~390 mi) into the Atlantic Ocean to help Falcon 9’s next Starlink launch and landing.

SpaceX’s eleventh Starlink launch this year alone, the mission will be the 12th operational (v1.0) dispatch and 13th Starlink dispatch by and large, together representing approximately 700 operational satellites in orbit.

As indicated by a May 2020 meeting with SpaceX COO and President Gwynne Shotwell, those open beta tests can just beginning after 14 Starlink dispatches are finished, while late FCC filings show that SpaceX is just considering v1.0 satellites as a component of the operational heavenly body.

At the end of the day, if effective, Starlink-12 would leave SpaceX only two dispatches from a heavenly body sufficiently enormous – or about so – to start open network access beta tests.

Then, the Falcon 9 rocket appointed to the mission will be very nearly breaking SpaceX’s promoter reuse turnaround record – right now set at 51 days between dispatches by a similar supporter alloted to Starlink-12.

Known as Falcon booster 9 B1058, the SpaceX rocket turned into the first US vehicle to dispatch space explorers since 2011, sending NASA space explorers Bob Behnken and Doug Hurley to the International Space Station (ISS) on board a Crew Dragon spacecraft.

After an effective May 30th launch, the spacecraft docked with the ISS approximately two days after the fact and went through over two months in circle before getting back to Earth toward the beginning of August.

In the interim, booster B1058 kept occupied while the rocket it dispatched was being put through some serious hardship in orbit.

On July 20th, the rocket crushed SpaceX’s turnaround record when it dispatched South Korea’s ANASIS II communications satellite only 51 days subsequent to supporting Crew Dragon’s inaugural astronaut launch.

While that 51-day turnaround broke SpaceX’s past record of 62 days, it additionally set a far loftier record, unseating NASA’s Space Shuttle to turn into the most quickly reusable orbital-class rocket ever constructed.

Starting at now, Falcon 9 B1058 is planned to dispatch Starlink-12 no sooner than (NET) 2:17 pm EDT (UTC-4) on Thursday, September 17th. Excepting delays, that would speak to a 59-day turnaround from the booster’s record-breaking second dispatch.

In the event that Starlink-12 dispatches by September nineteenth, B1058 will be the glad holder of both SpaceX’s first and runner up turnaround records and will have actually flown multiple times in ~110 days.

After Starlink-12, SpaceX means to dispatch Starlink-13 in late-September month and has booked its third US military GPS III dispatch – highlighting new Falcon 9 supporter B1062 – no sooner than (NET) September 30th.

While far-fetched, if everything stays on time, September 2020 could be the initial four-launch month in SpaceX’s history.