Liftoff is scheduled for 11:26 p.m. ET.
. The satellite will eventually set up shop in geostationary orbit, about 22,300 miles above our planet.
Hotbird 13G will join its twin, Hotbird 13F, which launched to that patch of cosmic real estate aboard a Falcon 9 last month. The two spacecraft will replace three existing Hotbird satellites, taking on quite a bit of responsibility. The Hotbird satellite family"forms one of the largest broadcasting systems in Europe, delivering 1,000 television channels to more than 160 million TV homes in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East,"The Hotbird 13G launch will be the second that SpaceX conducts from Florida's Space Coast over a two-day span. On Tuesday , Elon Musk's companyrocket, the most powerful launcher flying today. The mission was just the fourth ever for the Falcon Heavy and its first since June 2019.
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