SpaceX is making ready to launch its first Falcon 9 rocket since making its public buying and selling debut on the Nasdaq on Friday.
The Starlink 17-54 mission, launching from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday morning, will add 24 broadband web satellites to the corporate’s low Earth orbit constellation.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled throughout a window that opens at 7 a.m. PDT (10 a.m. EDT / 1400 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Spaceflight Now can have reside protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the Starlink 17-54 mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity B1093. This might be its 14th flight after launching missions, Transporter-14, SDA T1TL-B, SDA T1TL-C, and ten batches of Starlink satellites.
Slightly greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1093 will goal a touchdown on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, positioned within the Pacific Ocean. If profitable, this is able to be the 203rd touchdown on this vessel and the 624th booster touchdown for SpaceX.