SpaceX is picking up its launch pace in August aiming for its fourth launch in just over a week with another Starlink mission from the Space Coast.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of the company’s internet satellites is targeting a 12:27 a.m. liftoff after midnight Friday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 passing over four opportunities earlier Thursday. There are five backup options on Friday night from 9:30 p.m. through 12:52 a.m. Saturday.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron had forecast only a 60% chance for good conditions at opening window, but that improves to 90% by the end of the window. In the event of a 24-hour delay, the chances are 60% at the window opening improving to 90% by the end of the window.

The first-stage booster is flying for the ninth time and will attempt a recovery landing on the droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic.

It’s another quick turnaround for the Cape Canaveral pad, which saw SpaceX set a record of three days, 21 hours and 41 minutes between launches from Aug. 3-6. marks the third launch from the pad in just over eight days and seventh since one month ago. SpaceX also managed a launch from California’s Vandenburg Space Force Base on Tuesday.

This marks the 31st launch from Canaveral’s SLC-40 in 2023 while SpaceX has launched another 10 times from neighboring Kennedy Space Center’s Launch Complex 39-A.

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That makes this the 41st Space Coast launch of the year with all but two coming from SpaceX. It will be 55th for Elon Musk’s company among its Florida and California operations, but not the lone Starship and Super Heavy attempt from Texas that ended with that rocket’s destruction about four minutes into flight. At the beginning of the year, Musk said the company might fly as many as 100 orbital missions.

That includes a record nine launches in a single month that came in May for the company, although with the planned Crew-7 launch from KSC later this month, there is a chance August could equal or surpass that number if the Canaveral launch pace keeps its current rate.

This would be the 254th successful orbital flight since the first Falcon 1 launch in 2008 aiming for the 216th recovery and 189th reflight of a booster among its Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets.