SpaceX has two rockets on two pads that will be released on Space Coast on Monday.
The first is the Falcon 9, which carries 28 Starlink satellites targeted at 3:32pm from the Space Launch Complex at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.
Windy conditions and bad weather kept pushing Sunday’s launch attempts, which were ultimately scrubbed.
The first phase booster will take the 17th flight, aiming to land a recovery into the droneship.
This is the 25th launch on the Space Coast in 2025, with everything but one coming from SpaceX.
The 26th could be the second human space flight on SpaceX, the year after the release of Crew-10 earlier this month.
The Falcon 9 is set up four people on a FRAM2 private mission.
They will make their fourth space trip on the resilience of the Crew Dragon, leaving Kennedy Space Center launch pad 39-A with backups at 12:30am and 2:26am at 12:30am and 2:26am, while simultaneously using backups Tuesday night and early Wednesday morning.
The first phase booster is flying for the sixth time, with droneship recovery aiming for the lack of gravity stationed in the Atlantic.
FRAM2 @framonauts and SpaceX completed a full rehearsal of the release date activity ahead of Monday’s liftoff pic.twitter.com/e1t9ri57fy
– SpaceX (@Spacex) March 30, 2025
The flight bill is Chinese-born Chung Wang from Malta, an entrepreneur and avid adventurer who made his fortunes with cryptocurrency. What he is paying for hasn’t been announced, but a similar private mission run by Axiom Space, but if you sign with SpaceX for use of the spacecraft, each passenger will be $55 million.
The king’s three crew members are Australian friend and adventurer Eric Phillips, Norway’s Jannick Mikkelsen, and Germany’s Laveer Lodge. Mikkelsen will turn the roles of mission commander and Phillips into the role of pilots.
The trip is expected to last from three to five days, with the Dragon Capsule returning to a splashdown off the coast of California.
The crew will be conducting 22 research studies, including obtaining the first X-rays in space.
Original issue: March 30, 2025 9:02am EDT
