SpaceX will launch an advanced ocean-mapping satellite from California early Monday morning (Nov. 17), and you can watch the action live.

The Sentinel-6B spacecraft is scheduled to lift off atop a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday at 12:21 a.m. EDT (0521 GMT; 9:21 p.m. on Nov. 16 local California time).

You can watch the launch live here at Space.com courtesy of NASA, or directly via the space agency. Coverage will begin at 11:30 p.m. EDT on Sunday (Nov. 16; 0430 GMT on Nov. 17).

Sentinel-6B is part of the European Union's Copernicus Earth-observing program. The new satellite will measure sea surface heights around the globe with great accuracy, continuing the work of its predecessor, Sentinel 6 Michael Frelich, which launched atop a Falcon 9 in November 2020.

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