Update: Friday, February 25 (NET) 9:12 am PST (17:12 UTC) SpaceX said the Falcon 9 rocket was on the Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSFB) on the Starlink 4-11 flight from California. The mission is the third in a series of five Starlink launches scheduled for February and March 2022.

In lieu of a commercial mission ready to fly, the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is planned to launch at least five consecutive batches of Starlink satellites.

This line will not break the company’s record of seven Starlink launches in a row, but it will highlight a beneficial side effect of SpaceX’s tireless effort of vertical integration – the ability to generate its own launch requests. In about two months, 2022, SpaceX launched seven times – for three paid customers and four Starlinks. Before the end of February, the company aims to launch at least one batch of Starlink satellites for a total of eight launches in the first two months of this year.

Additionally, SpaceX has decided to launch Starlink 4-11 from the California-based SLC-4E Vandenberg Space Force Base (VSTB) facility (NET) 09:08 PST (17:08 UTC) before Friday, February 25th. The drone, of course, I Still Love You (OCISLY) set out on a mission from Long Beach Harbor on February 22 and landed in the Booster landing area about 640 km (~ 400 miles) southeast of Baja California. The Falcon 9 Booster B1063 is set to support this mission – the fourth overall launch since the launch of NASA’s DART asteroid diversion spacecraft. To the interplanetary space In November 2021.

Also, another Falcon 9 rocket will soon be launching Starlink 4-9 “Midnight” Thursday, March 3 EST from the Kennedy Space Center LC-39A Runway. The Booster B1060 is reported to support this mission, the first and third phase of the SpaceX, which will individually support eleven orbital class launches. Starlink 4-9 is the final mission of the multi-week runway to give SpaceX enough time to change the rocket carrier / erector to launch Axiom-1 on March 30. It will send four private astronauts to the International Space Station.

Finally, SpaceX plans to launch Starlink 4-10 Net on Tuesday from Launch Complex 40 (LC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS). SpaceX is likely to launch at least one Starlink mission next month, but the exact date has not yet been determined. The SpaceXX is on track to launch at least five consecutive Starlink missions, including Starlink 4-7 (February 3) and Starlink 4-8 ​​(February 21), and is expected to launch approximately 240 satellites (after ~ 200). Most of Starling lost 4-7 due to “geomagnetic storm”) In orbit in less than five weeks.

A sign of the lack of more commercially ready-to-flight missions than anything else, the Space SpaceX record for uninterrupted Starlink missions – set from February to April 2021 – is seven launches. Technically, SpaceX managed 12 StarLink launches between February and March, with the only commercial mission – Crew-2 – separating them all. Except for the surprises, it is unlikely that SpaceX will have a similar hit in 2022.

SpaceX is likely to launch three O3B mPower satellites next month for SES. At the very least, SpaceX is set to launch a trio of Dragon missions over the next two months, starting March 30 with Ax-1Net. Another crew dragon is scheduled to launch Crew-4 for NASA on April 15, followed by the CRS-25 cargo Dragon 2 space station launch mission on May 1. With the exception of the Starlink mission and the three commercial launches completed by SpaceX this year, 38 Falcon commercial launches have been tentatively scheduled before the end of 2022.

SpaceX is ready for its third consecutive Starlink launch [webcast]