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Live: SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg in California

Watch live coverage as SpaceX launches a Falcon 9 rocket from California with 24 satellites for SpaceX's space-based internet service, Starlink. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4E (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for Tuesday, May 19, at 7:46:19 p.m. PDT / 10:46:19 p.m. EDT (Wednesday, May 20, …

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SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft. The company was founded in 2002 to revolutionize space technology, with the ultimate goal of enabling people to live on other planets.

Starlink Group 17-42

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1103 - Of Course I Still Love You

A batch of 24 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.

Telemetry

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Updates

Cosmic_Penguin • May 20, 2026, 3:52 a.m.

Launch success.


Cosmic_Penguin • May 20, 2026, 2:46 a.m.

Liftoff.


LL2 • May 20, 2026, 2:35 a.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • May 20, 2026, 12:15 a.m.

Now targeting May 20 at 02:46 UTC


hitura-nobad • May 19, 2026, 10:54 a.m.

Now targeting May 20 at 02:36 UTC


Falcon 9

Family:
Configuration: Block 5

Falcon 9 is a two-stage rocket designed and manufactured by SpaceX for the reliable and safe transport of satellites and the Dragon spacecraft into orbit. The Block 5 variant is the fifth major interval aimed at improving upon the ability for rapid reusability.

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Specifications
  • Stages
    2
  • Length
    70.0 m
  • Diameter
    3.65 m
  • Fairing Diameter
    5.2 m
  • Launch Mass
    549.0 T
  • Thrust
    7607.0 kN
Family
  • Name
    Falcon 9
  • Family
  • Variant
    Block 5
  • Alias
  • Full Name
    Falcon 9 Block 5
Payload Capacity
  • Launch Cost
    $52000000
  • Low Earth Orbit
    22800.0 kg
  • Geostationary Transfer Orbit
    8300.0 kg
  • Direct Geostationary
  • Sun-Synchronous Capacity

Booster Info


B1103

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: April 7, 2026
Last Flight: August 12, 2026
Flights: 5
Landings Attempted: 5
Landings Successful: 5
Previous B1103 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1103 has landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 2nd flight.

Result: Successful Autonomous Spaceport Drone Ship landing at Of Course I Still Love You.

SpaceX

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 711 Failures: 15 Pending: 127

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Space Exploration Technologies Corp., known as SpaceX, is an American aerospace manufacturer and space transport services company headquartered in Hawthorne, California. It was founded in 2002 by entrepreneur Elon Musk with the goal of reducing space transportation costs and enabling the colonization of Mars. SpaceX operates from many pads, on the East Coast of the US they operate from SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and historic LC-39A at Kennedy Space Center. They also operate from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, usually for polar launches. Another launch site is being developed at Boca Chica, Texas.

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Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB

SpaceX’s 45th Starlink mission of the year will see the company add another 24 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit. Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 7:46 p.m. PDT (10:46 p.m. EDT / 0246 UTC).

Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA

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A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


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A batch of 27 satellites for the Starlink mega-constellation - SpaceX's project for space-based Internet communication system.


Falcon 9
Success
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