Replace 9:09 p.m. EDT: SpaceX pushed again the T-0 liftoff time.
SpaceX hopes to finish a double launch day on Sunday with the flight of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Area Pressure Base. The Starlink 7-17 mission will add one other 23 satellites to the rising low Earth orbit constellation.
Liftoff from Area Launch Advanced 4 East (SLC-4E) is ready for 9:09 p.m. PDT (12:09 a.m. EDT, 0409 UTC). It comes following the profitable launch of the Starlink 6-43 mission from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure station at 7:05 p.m. EDT (2305 UTC).
Spaceflight Now could have stay protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.
The primary stage booster supporting this mission, B1063, can be making its seventeenth flight. It beforehand launched NASA’s Double Asteroid Redirection Take a look at (DART) spacecraft, the Transporter-7 rideshare mission and 11 Starlink satellite tv for pc missions amongst its earlier flights.
B1063 is ready to land on the SpaceX droneship, ‘Of Course I Nonetheless Love You,’ a bit greater than eight minutes after liftoff. It will mark the eighty fifth touchdown on OCISLY and the 283rd booster touchdown so far.
This mission would be the ninth launch for SpaceX from Florida in 2024 and the 309th launch of a Falcon 9 rocket so far.
