File photo of a Falcon 9 fueled for launch at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 is scheduled to launch from the West Coast Saturday, carrying another batch of satellites for the company’s Starlink internet service.
Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California is scheduled for 8:51 a.m. PDT (11:51 a.m. EDT / 1551 UTC). The Falcon 9 will take a southerly trajectory on departure from Space Launch Complex 4E, as it targets an 97-degree inclination orbit.
Spaceflight Now will have live coverage starting about 30 minutes prior to launch.
The Falcon 9 first stage booster, launching for an eighth time, will land on the droneship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’, stationed about 380 miles downrange in the Pacific Ocean. The booster, B1100, previously launched the NROL-105 mission for the US government spy satellite agency and six previous Starlink missions.
