SpaceX planning launch for Transporter-17 mission early Tuesday morning
SpaceX is getting ready to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base. The 95-minute launch window will open at 12:10 a.m. on Tuesday. A livestream of the launch is expected to begin about 15 minutes before liftoff. The rocket will launch the Transporter-17 mission into low-Earth orbit. SpaceX officials say Transporter-17 is a dedicated smallsat rideshare mission. There will be 81 payloads on the flight, including cubesats, microsats. hosted payloads, and orbital transfer vehicles carrying eight of those payloads to be deployed at a later time. Following stage separation, the first stage booster is expected to land on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean. No sonic boom is expected to be heard locally. If the launch does not liftoff Tuesday, SpaceX will try again on Wednesday.
Source: KSBY News