24 Starlink satellites to launch from California on a centesimal Falcon 9 rocket of the 12 months – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is ready to launch its a centesimal Falcon 9 rocket of the 12 months on Monday morning. The flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base will carry one other batch of Starlink optimized V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.

The Starlink 17-5 mission can even be the 72nd SpaceX launch of Starlink satellites up to now in 2025. It will deliver the entire variety of Starlink satellites orbited in 2025 to 1,786.

Spaceflight Now may have dwell protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.

SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster 1088 to launch this mission, which is able to mark its ninth journey to house. Its earlier missions embrace NROL-126, NROL-57 and NASA’s SPHEREx/PUNCH journey share mission.

Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1088 will goal a touchdown on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ If profitable, this would be the 145th booster touchdown on this vessel and the 489th booster touchdown to this point.

Deployment of the 24 satellites ought to happen a bit of over an hour into flight. A deorbit burn will get rid of the rocket’s second stage within the Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand.