SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from California – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX will proceed its speedy tempo of launches Monday with the flight of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The Starlink 11-21 mission will add one other 28 extra of the V2 Mini iteration of the satellites into low Earth orbit. An on-time liftoff would break the file for the quickest pad turnaround for SpaceX’s West Coast launch pad, coming just below 55 hours because the Starlink 11-12 mission on Saturday. The firm has already set turnaround data this month on each coasts.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is presently scheduled for two:12 p.m. PDT (5:12 p.m. EDT / 2112 UTC). Spaceflight Now can have reside protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.

SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 booster with the tail quantity B1082 to launch this mission. This will probably be its seventeenth flight following USSF-62, NROL-145, OneWeb Launch 20 and 13 batches of Starlink satellites.

Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1082 will goal an autonomous touchdown on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. If profitable, this would be the 161st contact down on this vessel and the 525th booster touchdown so far. It can even be the 98th missions supporting SpaceX’s Starlink constellation this 12 months.