Update April 3, 9:52 p.m. EDT: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday night after standing down on Tuesday due to weather. The mission, dubbed Starlink 11-13, delivered 27 more Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit and will be the 25th Starlink flight of the year.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 6:02 p.m. PDT (9:02 p.m. EDT, 0102 UTC).
The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1088 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for a fifth time. It previously supported the launches of NASA’s SPHEREx and PUNCH rideshare mission, NROL-57, NROL-126 and the Transporter-12 smallsat rideshare flight.
A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1088 will target a landing on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You,’ which is positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this was the 123rd booster landing on OCISLY and the 426th booster landing to date.
