[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text]UPDATE: SpaceX is standing down today due to strong upper level winds. Now targeting launch of PAZ for February 22 at 6:17 a.m. PST.
SpaceX plans to launch a Falcon 9 rocket today carrying three satellites, including two of its own intended for internet broadcasting.
The launch is planned for 6:17 a.m. PT (9:17 a.m. ET) from California’s Vandenberg Air Force base. SpaceX won’t be recovering this booster after the mission.
The main payload on this flight, a satellite known as PAZ, is operated by Hisdesat, a military-focused subsidiary of Spain’s national satellite company.
This launch will also carry SpaceX’s first satellites for a satellite broadband internet service. The satellites known as Microsat-2a and -2b will test a broadband antenna to be included in the proposed constellation that will beam internet service back to earth. The full planned constellation will include more than 4,000 satellites.
Today’s Falcon launch carries 2 SpaceX test satellites for global broadband. If successful, Starlink constellation will serve least served.
— Elon Musk (@elonmusk) February 21, 2018
Watch SpaceX’s livestream below.[/vc_column_text][vc_video link=”https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-p-PToD2URA” video_title=”1″][/vc_column][/vc_row]