Falcon 9 launch announced for early Tuesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base
VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. – A Falcon 9 launch window has been announced starting at 1:07 a.m. on Tuesday, Oct. 15 carrying 20 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit.
Backup launch opportunities will be available until 5:03 a.m. as well as Wednesday, Oct. 16, starting at 12:42 a.m. shared SpaceX.
According to SpaceX, 13 of those Starlink satellites will have Direct to Cell capabilities which is shown in the image below.
The Falcon 9 will take off from Space Launch Complex 4 East and, following first-stage separation, will return to Earth to land on the Of Course I Still Love You drone ship awaiting in the Pacific Ocean shared Space Launch Delta 30 Public Affairs Office in a press release Monday.
A depiction of that flight pattern is shown below, courtesy of SpaceX.
A live webcast of the launch will begin five minutes before liftoff you can watch here.
This will be the 19th mission for the Falcon 9 assigned to this mission which previously launched the following missions: NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, NROL-146, and eleven previous Starlink missions.
