Planned Vandenberg Launch of Starlink 15-25
SpaceX is preparing to launch a Falcon 9 rocket on the Starlink 15-25 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, with liftoff scheduled for 5:28 p.m. PDT (8:28 p.m. EDT / 0028 UTC) on Monday. The rocket will fly a southerly trajectory along the California coast targeting a 70-degree inclination orbit.
Booster B1088 Targeting Twentieth Flight
The first-stage booster, serial number B1088, is set to launch for a twentieth time. After separation the booster is planned to land on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" roughly 8.5 minutes into the flight. B1088's prior missions include NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx, NROL-57, USSF-366 and fourteen previous Starlink delivery runs.
Payload and Deployment Profile
The mission is expected to carry 27 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites. If the flight proceeds as planned, the satellites are scheduled to deploy into a 266-kilometer-high orbit a little more than an hour after liftoff.
Follow-up Signal
Spaceflight Now stated it would provide live coverage starting about 30 minutes prior to the scheduled launch time. The next verified milestone is the actual liftoff and deployment event itself, which the reporting described as scheduled rather than completed as of the article's publication.
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