It’s still a go as of right now for an early morning Wednesday rocket launch from Santa Barbara County. SpaceX is planning to launch one of its Falcon 9 rockets from Vandenberg Air Force Base, in the seventh in a series of flights to put a series of new communications satellites in orbit.
There are 10 Iridium NEXT satellites in the payload, which would be part of a global network of 75.
The launch window opens at 4:39 a.m. Wednesday morning. SpaceX will try to recover the reusable rocket booster. It is also deploying a special boat equipped with a giant net which will try to catch the rocket’s nose cone for reuse. Past efforts to catch and reuse the cone have been unsuccessful.
