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The next space launch, retrieved from our Launch Library 2 API, is Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-9. It is scheduled to be launched by SpaceX from Space Launch Complex 4E, Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA at 2024-10-30 11:07:00 UTC. Until then, this pad will have been used for 163 out of 775 launches from this location. The launch status is currently Go 🟩 . The mission type is Communications and the payload will be injected into a Low Earth Orbit (LEO).

A batch of 20 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

• [2024-10-30 11:07:00 UTC] 🟩 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-9 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2024-10-30 21:10:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 10-13 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-10-31 07:00:00 UTC] 🟩 Soyuz 2.1b | Kosmos (Unknown Payload) from Plesetsk Cosmodrome, Russian Federation.
• [2024-11-02 06:46:00 UTC] 🟩 H3-22 | DSN 3 (Kirameki 3) from Tanegashima Space Center, Japan.
• [2024-11-02 08:56:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 9-10 from Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA.
• [2024-11-03 21:57:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Starlink Group 6-77 from Cape Canaveral SFS, FL, USA.
• [2024-11-04 10:30:00 UTC] 🟩 Electron | Changes In Latitudes, Changes In Attitudes from Rocket Lab Launch Complex 1, Mahia Peninsula, New Zealand.
• [2024-11-04 23:18:40 UTC] 🟩 Soyuz 2.1b/Fregat-M | Ionosfera-M 1 & 2 from Vostochny Cosmodrome, Siberia, Russian Federation.
• [2024-11-05 02:29:00 UTC] 🟨 Falcon 9 Block 5 | Dragon CRS-2 SpX-31 from Kennedy Space Center, FL, USA.
• [2024-11-21 12:22:00 UTC] 🟩 Soyuz 2.1a | Progress MS-29 (90P) from Baikonur Cosmodrome, Republic of Kazakhstan.

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• 🔗 [Spaceflight Now] Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 20 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB