A set of European internet satellites could ride a Falcon 9 rocket as soon as this week from Vandenberg Space Force Base with the first-stage booster scheduled to return to land on the Central Coast.

On Saturday, SpaceX scrapped plans for a liftoff at 11:54 p.m. Sunday from Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base.

Vandenberg officials said the countdown has been delayed until Oct. 1 at the earliest. (This story will be updated when SpaceX confirm the next launch attempt time and day.

Upon completing its chores, the first-stage booster, or lower two-thirds of the vehicle, will return to Vandenberg, landing just west of the launch pad eight minutes after liftoff. 

That return will likely cause sonic booms audible in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties.

Falcon will carry 20 OneWeb spacecraft for Eutelsat Group.

Deployment of the satellites will begin approximately one hour after departure and finish in 19 minutes.

OneWeb, a constellation of more than 600 satellites, provides broadband Internet services.

For instance the high-speed, low-latency will aid researchers in Antarctica where historically they have had limited access, according to Eutelsat.

Along with better reliability, OneWeb provides data-rates up to 120 megabits per second, significantly more than the 1-5 Mbps previously available to the researchers.

Vandenberg also saw other OneWeb satellites travel to space on a Falcon 9 rocket for a rideshare mission in May 2023.

This will be the fifth Falcon 9 launch in about a month for the SpaceX team at Vandenberg.

A live webcast of this mission will begin about five minutes prior to liftoff and can be viewed on www.spacex.com and on X @SpaceX (formerly Twitter).