SpaceX will try to launch another batch of Starlink satellites on Saturday

[Mike Wehner]

• The SpaceX Starlink mission that was scheduled for Wednesday and then Friday has now been pushed to Saturday.
• Weather conditions have repeatedly delayed the launch, which includes a batch of 57 new communications satellites.
• The launch is slated for 10:55 a.m. ET on Saturday, weather permitting.

It's been something of a rough week for SpaceX. Nothing has really gone wrong, but the weather just really, really doesn't seem to want to cooperate with the company's plans to launch another batch of its Starlink communications satellites into orbit. Originally scheduled for Wednesday, the launch was pushed back to today, Friday the 10th, but that didn't work out either. Now, the back-up-to-the-back-up launch window is slated for Saturday, July 11th, at 10:55 a.m. ET.

This will be the third attempted launch of the Falcon 9 which is carrying not only a pair of new satellites for a company called BlackSky but also a heaping batch of 57 shiny new Starlink satellites. Well, actually they're not quite as shiny as they used to be, but we'll get to that in a minute.

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