SpaceX aims to launch Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral on Wednesday

CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. – If all goes as planned, SpaceX is targeting to launch the Falcon 9 rocket on Wednesday afternoon from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, where there are both government and commercial space operations.

The California-based aerospace company’s reusable medium-lift launch vehicle is set to liftoff after 5:25 p.m. from the Space Launch Complex 40. There is a two-hour and 49-minute launch window.

The SpaceX rocket will deliver the Astra 1P, a satellite known as SES-24 that will fly in orbit to support television broadcasters across Germany, France, and Spain.

Once the mission for SES, a Luxembourg-based telecommunications network provider, is completed the rocket is set to make a vertical landing on the “Just Read the Instructions,” or JRTI, autonomous droneship, in the Atlantic.

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Map of launch location