Watch the Falcon 9 launch from pad 39A

Rocket Lab’s light-class Electron launcher is set to take off on its fourth flight from New Zealand, aiming to deliver 13 CubeSats to orbit on the company’s first mission for NASA.

The mission is third time SpaceX will launch satellites for AST SpaceMobile and its first of the Block 2 iteration of the BlueBird satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 2:39 a.m. EDT (0639 UTC).

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is standing more than 20 stories tall on pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, ready for blastoff with the Turksat 5A communications satellite.