SpaceX plans to launch 25 of its Starlink V2 mini-optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning.
The Starlink 17-20 missions will send broadband satellites into polar low Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a southern trajectory when it launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 a.m. EST/1730 UTC).
Spaceflight Now’s live coverage will begin approximately 30 minutes before launch.
SpaceX will launch the mission using a Falcon 9 first stage booster with tail number 1097. This will be its sixth flight after launching three batches of Sentinel-6B, Twilight Ride Share and Starlink satellites.
About 8.5 minutes after takeoff, the B1097 drone is ready to land on the ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. If successful, it will be the 173rd landing on this spacecraft and the 563rd booster landing ever for SpaceX.
