SpaceX will launch a Falcon 9 rocket Monday from Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, carrying another batch of Starlink satellites.
Liftoff off of the Starlink 15-25 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 5:28 p.m. PDT (8:28 p.m. EDT / 0028 UTC). The rocket will head on a southerly trajectory along the California coast as it targets an orbit inclined 70 degrees to the Equator.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage starting about 30 minutes prior to launch.
The first-stage booster, serial number B1088, launching for a 20th time, will land on the drone ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ nearly 8.5 minutes into the flight. The booster previously flew the NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57 and USSF-366 mission, plus 14 previous Starlink delivery runs.
If all goes according to plan the 27 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites will be deployed into a 266 kilometer high orbit a little more than an hour after liftoff.
