Liftoff is scheduled for 6:46 a.m. ET on Friday (Dec. 16).
. If all goes according to plan, the booster will come back to Earth for a sixth time on Friday, landing at Vandenberg about 7.5 minutes after liftoff.
The Falcon 9's upper stage will continue carrying SWOT to orbit, eventually deploying the satellite 52.5 minutes after launch. SWOT is a joint effort of NASA and the French space agency CNES, with contributions from the Canadian and United Kingdom space agencies.
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