SpaceX Scrubs Starlink 15-15 Launch at Vandenberg and Moves the Attempt to Wednesday
The Falcon 9, carrying 27 Starlink satellites, did not lift off in its Tuesday window at Space Launch Complex 4 East. A new attempt follows on Wednesday afternoon.
SpaceX called off the planned Tuesday, Oct. 20 launch of its Starlink 15-15 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base, and the next attempt is set for Wednesday afternoon, Oct. 21.
Spaceflight Now, which covered the countdown live, reported in an update at 7:06 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday that the launch had been scrubbed and was being targeted for Wednesday afternoon. The Space Launch Schedule log for the mission recorded the same outcome in plainer terms, marking the mission as scrubbed for the day on Tuesday.
Spaceflight Now reported that the scrub followed what looked like a technical problem that could not be cleared inside the Tuesday window. No cause beyond that account is stated in the sources for this story, and this article does not add one.
The mission itself is unchanged. A Falcon 9 at Space Launch Complex 4 East is to carry 27 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit, a payload both Spaceflight Now and the Space Launch Schedule list for the mission.
The first stage assigned to the flight is booster B1063, and both sources put the flight at the 36th for that booster.
The Ventura County Star, in its launch coverage, put the mission in a wider count for the year: a liftoff would be the 71st rocket launch in California in 2026, level with the total the paper gave for all of 2025. That record context now waits on the Wednesday attempt.
Readers should treat the Wednesday timing as a target rather than a fixed hour. The sources for this story gave differing window details for the new attempt, so this article reports only the shared point, a Wednesday afternoon attempt, and no opening time.
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