SpaceX executed a Sunday evening launch from Kennedy Space Center with a Monday launch attempt from Cape Canaveral on tap.

First up was a Falcon 9 rocket from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A on the Optux X/TD7 mission to launch a geostationary communication satellite built by Northrop Grumman for the Australian company Optus at 5:28 p.m.

Falcon 9’s first stage has landed on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship pic.twitter.com/6kkSy4y3mY

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 17, 2024

This was the 16th mission for the first-stage booster, which was used on Crew-5, CRS-28 and NG-20 among other missions, making another recovery landing downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean.

Next up on the Space Coast is a Monday afternoon launch of a Falcon 9 on the GSAT-20 mission to send a communication satellite for the Indian Space Research Organization to a geosynchronous transfer orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during launch window from 1:31-3:20 p.m. and backup on Tuesday during a two-hour window that opens at 4:33 a.m.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts better than 95% chances for launch on Monday.

The first-stage booster for the mission is flying for the 19th time with a recovery landing downrange planned on droneship Just Read the Instructions in the Atlantic Ocean.

Falcon 9 lifts off from pad 39A in Florida pic.twitter.com/Dm3uiNSiNQ

— SpaceX (@SpaceX) November 18, 2024

This was the 80th and Monday’s would be the 81st launch from the Space Coast in 2024, will all but five coming from SpaceX.

SpaceX also had a Starlink launch at 12:47 a.m. Monday from California and is aiming for the much anticipated sixth launch of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy on Tuesday during a 30-minute launch window that opens at 5 p.m. from Starbase in Boca Chica, Texas.