SpaceX to launch 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB – Spaceflight Now
Update Apr. 22, 10:17 pm EDT (0217 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.
SpaceX will launch its fortieth Starlink mission of the yr when its Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Wednesday evening.
The Starlink 17-14 mission will add one other 25 broadband web satellites to the corporate’s low Earth orbit constellation, which consists of greater than 10,200 spacecraft.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 8:23:09 pm PDT (11:23:09 pm EDT / 0323:09 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
(*25*) Now could have reside protection starting about half-hour prior to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity 1100. This shall be its fifth flight following the launches of NROL-105 together with three different batches of Starlink satellites.
Just a little greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1100 is ready to land on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. If profitable, this would be the 192nd booster touchdown on this vessel and the 602nd booster touchdown to date for SpaceX.
