Live coverage: SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites

SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket with 21 Starlink satellites on board will launch from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Station. Liftoff is no earlier than 7:44 p.m. PST (10:44 p.m. EST, 0344 UTC).

A Soyuz-2.1b booster loaded with 34 satellites for OneWeb’s global Internet network rolled out of its assembly building Monday at the Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan and rode a rail car to its launch pad for final preflight checks before liftoff Thursday.

The mission, dubbed KF-02, is the fourth flight to date of Project Kuiper satellites. Liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 8:57 a.m. EDT (1257 UTC) on Sunday, Aug. 10.