SpaceX will continue its rapid pace of launches on Monday with the flight of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.
The Starlink 11-21 mission will add 28 more satellites of the V2 mini iteration to low Earth orbit. The timely liftoff will break the record for fastest pad turnaround for SpaceX’s West Coast launch pad, coming in just under 55 hours for the Starlink 11-12 mission on Saturday. The company has already set turnaround records on both coasts this month.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is currently scheduled for 2:21 p.m. PDT (5:21 p.m. EDT/2121 UTC). Spaceflight Now’s live coverage will begin approximately 30 minutes before liftoff.
SpaceX will use a Falcon 9 booster with tail number B1082 to launch this mission. This will be its 17th flight after USSF-62, NROL-145, OneWeb Launch 20 and 13 batches of Starlink satellites.
Approximately 8.5 minutes after takeoff, the B1082 drone will aim for an autonomous landing on the ship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. If successful, it will be the 161st touchdown and 525th booster landing ever on this ship. It will also be the 98th mission to support SpaceX’s Starlink constellation this year.
