21 additional Starlink broadband satellites from SpaceX are scheduled to launch from California this Saturday night, April 6.

Ninety-two minutes before sunset on April 7, 10:25 p.m. EDT (7:25 p.m. local California time; 02:25 GMT on April 7) is when a Falcon 9 rocket carrying twenty-one of SpaceX’s Starlink spacecraft—six of which can beam service directly to cell phones—is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base, on California’s central coast.

Starting roughly five minutes before the window opens, SpaceX will webcast the launch using its X account.

If all goes as planned, the first stage of the Falcon 9 will return to Earth for a vertical landing around eight minutes after liftoff. The droneship Of Course I Still Love You, which will be based in the Pacific Ocean, is where it will land.

As per the SpaceX mission description, this will be the booster’s sixth launch and landing.

The 21 Starlink satellites will be launched into low Earth orbit (LEO) by the Falcon 9’s upper stage, and they will be deployed there 62.5 minutes after liftoff.
SpaceX has conducted 33 orbital missions in 2024, with two thirds of those missions focused on expanding its Starlink megaconstellation, which now has over 5,650 operational satellites in low-Earth orbit.

If everything goes according to plan, tonight’s launch will be the second Starlink launch in two days: Early on Friday, April 5, SpaceX launched 23 of the broadband craft from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.

Due to inclement weather, SpaceX had to postpone its planned Friday night launch of the 21 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg.