Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg
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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg

Spaceflight Now2d ago

SpaceX is set to launch a batch of its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday morning.

The Starlink 17-47 mission will add another 24 broadband internet to its low Earth orbit constellation. There are currently more than 10,000 satellites in orbit.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 7:36 a.m. PDT (10:36 a.m. EDT / 1436 UTC). The Falcon 9 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 will launch the mission with the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1088. This will be its 16th flight after launching missions, like NASA's SPHEREx, Transporter-12 and NROl-126.

More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1088 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 200th landing on this vessel and the 619th booster landing to date.

Originally published by Spaceflight Now

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