Small Space News Story Roundup 72

Kind of a slow night here. Been trying to find something worth talking about and there's pretty much one story - maybe two depending on how it develops.  

Story 1 - Another Potential Record for SpaceX

I don't tend to report on SpaceX records because they're at the point where almost every other flight is company record of some sort, but this one isn't a SpaceX record it's a Cape Canaveral/Florida record. 

Weather permitting, the launch of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will be the 94th launch for an orbital class rocket from Florida, surpassing the total achieved in 2024.

Weather isn't likely to be an issue - in the sense of rain or things like the Cumulus cloud rule that scrubbed the New Glenn flight Sunday afternoon. Late last night we had the passage of the first strong cold front of the season, and temperatures here a bit south of the cape are going to be close to record low for this time of year - with our morning low forecast to be around 39 or 40.   

Wind is the only concern, with no real limit number put on it. At Patrick Space Force Base, winds at 9:30 PM are WNW at 23 gusting 36 

That aside the mission name you'll see is 6-87. As I understand it, the numbers describe the place around the Earth where the satellites will be stationed.  The first is the shell number and the second is the satellites' places in that shell. 

Story 2 - New Glenn Rescheduled

New Glenn was rescheduled by Sunday evening, after yesterday afternoon's scrub. The new schedule is tomorrow, Weds., Nov. 12 at 2:50 PM EST.  

Putting 1 and 2 together, it becomes obvious that if New Glenn had launched yesterday, it would have set the record for total launches out of the Cape Canaveral/Kennedy Space Center complex.  It seems like a special kind of ironic for a rocket-type on its second launch ever to set a record like that. Just luck. 

Between its two Falcon launch pads, Launch Complex 39A and Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX will have launched 88 times after flying the Starlink 6-87 mission, about 95 percent of the launches from Florida’s Space Coast.