Update April 29, 7:46 p.m. EDT (2346 UTC): SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time.
Following a successful Falcon Heavy launch from Florida on Wednesday morning, SpaceX is set to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from California Wednesday evening.
The Starlink 17-36 mission will add another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company’s massive low Earth orbit constellation. This is the 51st mission sending Starlink satellites into space this year.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:42:49 pm PDT (10:42:49 pm EDT / 0242:49 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.
SpaceX is launching the mission using the Falcon booster with the tail number B1093. This will be its 13th flight following Transporter-16, two missions for the Space Development Agency, and 10 previous batches of Starlink satellites.
A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1093 will target a landing on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this will be the 194th landing on this vessel and the 606th booster landing to date for SpaceX.
