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Mike Wall

SpaceX delays California launch of 22 Starlink satellites to Feb. 15

A black-and-white spacex falcon 9 rocket launches into a blue sky.

SpaceX plans to launch 22 more of its Starlink internet satellites on Thursday (Feb. 15), after a one-day delay.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 Starlink spacecraft is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Thursday during a four-hour window that opens at 4:34 p.m. EST (1:34 p.m. local California time, or 2134 GMT).

SpaceX will livestream the launch via its X account. Coverage will begin about five minutes before the window opens.

SpaceX first attempted the Starlink launch on Wednesday, but stood down after targeting the end of the window.

Related: Starlink satellite train: How to see and track it in the night sky

If all goes according to plan, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff for a landing on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You, which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean.

It will be the second launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description. Its previous flight was also a Starlink mission.

The Starlink launch is part of a very busy spaceflight stretch. On Wednesday evening, for example, SpaceX launched the classified USSF-124 mission for the U.S. Space Force

Then, hours later at 10:25 p.m. EST (0325 GMT on Feb. 15), a Russian Soyuz rocket will launch the robotic Progress 87 cargo craft toward the International Space Station from Baikonur Cosmodrome in Kazakhstan.

And at 1:05 a.m. EST (0605 GMT) on Thursday (Feb. 15), SpaceX plans to launch the private IM-1 moon-landing mission from NASA's Kennedy Space Center. 

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