SpaceX is set to continue the Space Coast’s record rocket launch pace with a Monday evening liftoff in store, although weather might not cooperate.

A Falcon 9 rocket on the Turksat-6A mission sending a Turkish communications satellite to a geosynchronous transfer orbit set to lift off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 targeting a 5:21 p.m, liftoff during a launch window that runs until 9:14 p.m. with a four-hour backup window that opens at 5:20 p.m. Tuesday.

Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts only a 30% chance for favorable weather conditions, though, on both Monday and the backup launch window on Tuesday with cumulus cloud, anvil cloud and lightning rules threatening launch.

This is the 15th flight of the first-stage booster, which will attempt a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed in the Atlantic.

It’s the 50th launch of the year from either Canaveral or neighboring Kennedy Space Center with SpaceX responsible for 47 of them.

The other three have been from United Launch Alliance during a year that could see more than 100 missions fly for the first time, besting 2023’s record of 72 launches.

Launch Vehicle on Stand (LVOS)
Five solid rocket boosters installed
Centaur V lifted and secured

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Both SpaceX and ULA have more launch plans for later this month including SpaceX’s next Starlink launch slated for July 12. ULA is targeting no earlier than July 30 for an Atlas V mission on the USSF-51 mission for the Space Force while SpaceX is prepping for the return of billionaire Jared Isaacman to space on the Polaris Dawn mission no earlier than July 31.

Isaacman flew on the Inspiration4 mission with three other passengers in 2021 on an orbital mission aboard the Crew Dragon Resilience, which is set to be his ride again. This time he’s flying with pilot friend Scott Poteet and two SpaceX employees, Sarah Gillis and Anna Menon. The mission highlight is a planned tethered spacewalk for Isaacman and Gillis, which would be the first commercial spacewalk in history.