{"id":131461,"date":"2021-11-29T17:22:28","date_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:22:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/spacex-drone-ship-heads-to-sea-for-record-breaking-starlink-launch"},"modified":"2021-11-29T17:22:28","modified_gmt":"2021-11-30T01:22:28","slug":"spacex-drone-ship-heads-to-sea-for-record-breaking-starlink-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/11\/spacex-drone-ship-heads-to-sea-for-record-breaking-starlink-launch","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX drone ship heads to sea for record-breaking Starlink launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/spacex-drone-ship-heads-to-sea-for-record-breaking-starlink-launch2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s newest drone ship is on its way out into the Atlantic Ocean for a Starlink mission that will break the company\u2019s record for annual launch cadence.<\/p>\n<p>Somewhat confusing known as Starlink Shell 4 Launch 3 or Starlink 4\u20133, the batch of 53 laser-linked V1.5 satellites is scheduled to fly before Starlink 4\u20132 for unknown reasons and at the same time as Starlink 2\u20133 is scheduled to fly before Starlink 2\u20132 on the West Coast. Regardless of the seemingly unstable launch order, perhaps related to the recent introduction of Starlink\u2019s new V1.5 satellite design, drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas\u2019 (ASOG) November 27th Port Canaveral confirms that SpaceX is more or less on track to launch Starlink 4\u20133 no earlier than (NET) 6:20 pm EST (23:20 UTC) on Wednesday, December 1st.<\/p>\n<p>In a bit of a return to stride after launching 20 times in the first six months but only three times in the entire third quarter of 2021, Starlink 4\u20133 is currently the first of four or even five SpaceX launches scheduled in the last month of the year. Nevertheless, if Starlink 4\u20133 is successful, it will also set SpaceX up to cross a milestone unprecedented in the history of satellite launches.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s newest drone ship is on its way out into the Atlantic Ocean for a Starlink mission that will break the company\u2019s record for annual launch cadence. Somewhat confusing known as Starlink Shell 4 Launch 3 or Starlink 4\u20133, the batch of 53 laser-linked V1.5 satellites is scheduled to fly before Starlink 4\u20132 for unknown [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1488,418,9,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-131461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-drones","category-internet","category-military","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=131461"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/131461\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=131461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=131461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=131461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}