SpaceX starts the week with the launch of 27 Starlink V2 mini satellites from the Wandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Space Launch Complex is targeting PDT (EDT, 2200 UTC) on Monday, April 7 at 3 am on the East. If necessary, the launch window expands another 3.5 hours.
Spaceflight will now start live coverage about 30 minutes before the liveoff.
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A slight more than eight minutes in the mission, the SpaceX Falcon 9 will target a droneship landing for the first stage booster of the 9 rocket. If successful, it will be the 124th booster landing for droneship, of course I still love you, ‘and 428th booster landing till date.
Spacex will introduce a new Falcon 9 First Stage Booster on this mission, which can be B1091. This will be the second new booster that SpaceX introduced this year, after the launch of B1092 on Starlink 12–13 mission on 27 February.
Through its system of renewal and reuse, SpaceX is aiming to introduce low boosters in its lineup over time and ramps reuses with the goal of being able to be able to launch up to 40 times each of the booster. It launched six new boosters in 2024, four boosters in 2023 and six new boosters in 2022.
So far, SpaceX has 18 Falcon boosters in its active rotation with the use of 11 on the East Coast and seven on the West Coast.
SpaceX has only one booster that was currently used as a Falcon heavy side booster and did not flow again as Falcon 9 rocket booster, which is B1072. The IT and B1086 supported the launch of the GOE -U Weather Satellite, but the latter was converted into a Falcon 9 booster and was again launched on Starlink 12–5 mission after about six months.
