SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB – Spaceflight Now

Update Sept. 13, 9:12 a.m. EDT: SpaceX pushed again the T-0 time.

SpaceX is heading into the weekend getting ready for its newest Starlink mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base.

The Starlink 17-10 mission on Saturday will add one other 24 broadband web satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. Following the deployment greater than an hour after liftoff, SpaceX may have greater than 8,400 satellites in low Earth orbit, in keeping with stats tracked by knowledgeable orbital tracker, Jonathan McDowell.

SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 10:55 a.m. PDT (1:55 p.m. EDT / 1755 UTC). This will likely be SpaceX’s forty second launch from California this 12 months.

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



SpaceX will launch the Starlink 17-10 mission utilizing its second-most flown Falcon 9 first stage booster: B1071. This will likely be its twenty eighth flight after launching 16 earlier batches of Starlink satellites, 5 missions for the National Reconnaissance Office and 4 rideshare missions.

Nearly 8.5 minutes after taking off from the launch pad, SpaceX will try and land B1071 on its drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You.’ If all goes effectively, this would be the 151st profitable restoration with this vessel and the 504th booster touchdown to this point.