Edhat Staff
SpaceX completed a successful launch on Sunday evening from Vandenberg Space Force Base.
At 9:09 p.m., Falcon 9 launched 23 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).
This is the 17th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich, DART, Transporter-7, Iridium OneWeb, SDA-0B, and now 12 Starlink missions.
Watch the launch below:
Watch Falcon 9 launch 23 @Starlink satellites to orbit https://t.co/ItHBMkjrq1
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) March 8, 2024
Today’s/this week’s launch will be “Landing on the droneship somewhere in the PO, so there won’t be the sonic boom we so love to hear! (but if you listen closely you might hear the Launch ❌…)
Launch time: 7:20-11:51 p.m. PT (10:20 p.m. – 2:51 a.m. ET, 0220-0651 UTC)
Launch site: SLC-4E, Vandenberg Space Force Base, California
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch 23 Starlink internet satellites from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E). The Falcon 9’s first stage booster is targeting a landing on the droneship ‘Of Course I Still Love You’ in the Pacific Ocean.
BICYCLIST – is that launch tonight? Is it this one?
https://www.spacelaunchschedule.com/category/vandenberg-sfb/
sacjon – well that’s embarrassing, I’d copied the text from Spacflightnow & totally left out the most important part (the DATE!). Yes it’s listed as March 18/19…
https://spaceflightnow.com/launch-schedule/
as well as apparently misplacing the (“) opps
No worries, thanks! I’m hoping to finally see one before I hear it!