UPDATE Oct. 19, 10:26 am EDT (1426 UTC): SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time.
SpaceX is preparing for its 50th Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday.
The Starlink 11-19 mission will add another 28 Starlink satellites to its broadband internet constellation in low Earth orbit. According to data maintained by astronomer and expert orbital tracker Jonathan McDowell, there are more than 8,600 satellites currently in orbit.
Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 12:24 p.m. PDT (3:24 p.m. EDT/1924 UTC).
Spaceflight Now’s live coverage will begin approximately 30 minutes before launch.
SpaceX will use a Falcon 9 booster with tail number B1088 to launch this mission. This is its 11th flight, following the launch of two missions for NASA’s SPHEREx, Transporter-12 and the National Reconnaissance Office.
Approximately 8.5 minutes after takeoff, B1088 will aim for an autonomous landing on ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, a drone ship located in the Pacific Ocean. If all goes well, this will be the 158th landing and 521st booster landing ever on this ship.
