Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

SpaceX is preparing to launch its 260th orbital flight from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in the predawn hours of Sunday.

The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-23, will add another 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to the company’s low Earth orbit constellation. SpaceX is aiming to launch its Falcon 9 rocket at 1:47 a.m. EDT (0547 UTC).

Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.

The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 95 percent chance for favorable weather during Sunday’s launch window.

SpaceX will use the first stage booster, tail number B1069, to launch the mission, which will fly for a 25th time. Some of its previous missions include CRS-24, Eutelsat’s Hotbird 13F and 20 batches of Starlink satellites.

A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1069 will target a landing on the droneship, ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas.’ If successful, this will be the 114th touchdown for this vessel and the 465th booster landing to date.

The Starlink 10-23 mission will be SpaceX’s 57th Starlink launch of the year out of a total of 76 Falcon 9 flights. The company aims to launch 170 Falcon rockets by the end of 2025.