SpaceX Falcon 9’s 16th mission to now launch on Saturday: Here’s when and where to watch

However, the Falcon 9 rocket and the Starlink satellites are okay, he added.

The upcoming mission will be the 16th mission for this particular rocket's first stage, matching a record of most re-use missions set less than a week ago by another Falcon 9.

If all goes as per the plan, the Falcon 9 rocket’s non-reusable upper stage will continue to carry the 54 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, ultimately deploying them about a little over an hour after lift-off.

The upcoming launch will happen at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Saturday at 9:45 AM IST (12:40 AM EDT).

The live webcast of the launch will begin about five minutes ahead of the launch.

Interested viewers can watch the vent live on the SpaceX website at https://www.spacex.com/launches/mission/?missionId=sl-5-15

The live streaming of the launch will also be available on the official YouTube channel of the space agency.

Earlier on Friday, the Indian Space Research Organisation successfully launched the Chandrayaan-3 mission from the Satish Dhawan Space Centre. The space agency’s Launch Vehicle Mark III rocket carried the mission capsule which is equipped with a lander, a rover and a propulsion module. The Chandrayaan-3 was successfully placed into orbit by the LVM-III rocket.

Chandrayaan-3 is India’s third lunar mission that aims to perform a soft landing at the lunar surface, conduct exploration activities and in-situ experiments on the surface.