SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites From Vandenberg on 25th Falcon 9 Flight
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Updated · Spaceflight Now · Jun 24
SpaceX Launches 24 Starlink Satellites From Vandenberg on 25th Falcon 9 Flight
3 articles · Updated · Spaceflight Now · Jun 24
Summary
Wednesday’s Starlink 17-45 mission is set to lift off from Vandenberg at 8:30 p.m. PDT, sending 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into orbit aboard Falcon 9 booster B1081.
B1081 is flying for the 25th time and is scheduled to land on the droneship Of Course I Still Love You about 8.5 minutes after launch, with satellite deployment just over an hour into flight.
Vandenberg has become SpaceX’s busiest launch base in 2026, with this mission the seventh of eight planned there in June as the company shifts more Cape Canaveral activity toward Starship and Falcon Heavy work.
If the schedule holds, SpaceX will log 40 launches from Vandenberg versus 37 from Cape Canaveral in the first half of 2026, after a June 21 Starlink mission set a 56-hour pad-turnaround record at SLC-4E.