02/01/22 3:59pm A SpaceX photo taken on January 31 showing two Falcon 9 rockets on their respective launch pads in Florida. SpaceX SpaceX is having an unusually busy week, with three back-to-back Falcon 9 missions scheduled between Monday and Wednesday to launch from three different sites in the U.S. Sign Up For Our Daily Newsletter Sign Up — SpaceX (@SpaceX) February 1, 2022 The rocket at the Kennedy Space Center is carrying 49 Starlink satellites and expected to launch on Tuesday evening. It will be SpaceX’s third Starlink mission in 2022. The previous two batches were launched on January 6 and January 19, respectively. A third Falcon 9 rocket carrying a classified national security payload called NROL-87 is scheduled to lift off Wednesday afternoon from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. That will be SpaceX’s first mission to launch from the west coast this year. Launch window will open at 8:37 a.m. PT (11:37 a.m. ET). The mission is commissioned by the National Reconnaissance Office, the U.S. government’s spy satellite agency. SpaceX has completed four Falcon 9 missions in 2022 so far, still outpacing the launch rate of 2021. The company launched 31 Falcon 9 missions last year and 26 in 2020. Fourth launch and landing of Falcon 9 this year pic.twitter.com/qTx1C3I53F