SpaceX to launch its next Starlink fleet and 2 BlackSky satellites tonight. Watch it live! - Space.com

— SpaceX will launch its next stack of Starlink satellites from the East Coast tonight (Dec. 2) as part of a rideshare mission, and you can watch the action live online. .

The private spaceflight company will launch a stack of 48 Starlink satellites on one of its previously flown Falcon 9 rockets.

Related: Arianespace will launch two European navigation satellites on a Soyuz rocket tonight.

The flight also marks the second batch of SpaceX's newly upgraded Starlink internet satellites; SpaceX paused launches for about four months in order to equip the satellites with the ability to communicate with each other via laser links.

The mission lifting off today will bring the total number of SpaceX broadband satellites launched up to 1,892, with the majority of those launched in a single year.

(So far in 2021, SpaceX has launched 889 Starlink satellites, with thousands more planned in the coming years.)!

To ensure that Thursday's Falcon 9 rocket is ready to fly, SpaceX rolled the rocket out to the pad on Monday (Nov. 29) ahead of a planned static fire test.

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After the rocket successfully lifts the batch of Starlink satellites into orbit, SpaceX plans to land the booster on the deck of one of its massive drone ships, named "A Shortfall of Gravitas".