February 25, 2025 at 6:38 AM EST SpaceX looks to knock out the Space Coast’s 18th launch of 2025 but now targeting Tuesday night. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 21 Starlink satellites is targeting an 10:47 p.m. liftoff from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 during a flaunch window that runs until 2:47 a.m. Wednesday. SpaceX had originally been targeting Sunday night, then called off an attempt Monday night as well because of poor weather. Space Launch Delta 45’s weather squadron forecasts a 95% chance for good launch conditions during the window. That improves to better than 95% in the event of a 24-hour delay. This is the debut launch of the rocket’s first-stage booster, which will aim for a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions stationed in the Atlantic. SpaceX has flown all but one of the missions from either Kennedy Space Center or Cape Canaveral this year, with Blue Origin’s New Glenn responsible for the other. The Space Force at the beginning of the year had forecast up to 156 launches from the Space Coast in 2025, an average of 13 a month. It saw 10 in January, and this would be the eighth so far in February. SpaceX has at least one more launch planned this month, a moonbound payload for commercial company Intuitive Machines with its Athena lunar lander set to lift off from KSC’s Launch Pad 39-A as early as Wednesday targeting a 7:17 p.m. liftoff. Originally Published: