SpaceX is about to launch a batch of its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Area Power Base Wednesday morning.
The Starlink 17-47 mission will add one other 24 broadband web to its low Earth orbit constellation. There are presently greater than 10,000 satellites in orbit.
Liftoff from Area Launch Advanced 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 may have reside protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the mission with the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity B1088. This shall be its sixteenth flight after launching missions, like NASA’s SPHEREx, Transporter-12 and NROl-126.
Greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1088 will goal a touchdown on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Nonetheless Love You,’ positioned within the Pacific Ocean. If profitable, this would be the two hundredth touchdown on this vessel and the 619th booster touchdown thus far.
