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Live: Falcon 9 rocket launches satellites for SpaceX's Starlink internet service from 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 26, at 7:50:34 a.m. PDT (10:50:34 a.m. EDT / 1450:34 UTC). The …

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Starlink Group 17-37

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Overview

Destination: Low Earth Orbit
Mission: Communications

Low Earth Orbit Space Launch Complex 4E Vandenberg SFB, CA, USA
B1100 - 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 26, 2026, 3:55 p.m.

Launch success.


hitura-nobad • May 26, 2026, 2:51 p.m.

Liftoff!


LL2 • May 26, 2026, 2:37 p.m.

Unofficial Re-stream by SPACE AFFAIRS has started


Cosmic_Penguin • May 26, 2026, 2:50 a.m.

Now targeting May 26 at 14:50 UTC


Nosu • May 23, 2026, 5:07 a.m.

Now targeting May 26 at 14:00 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


B1100

Status: Active


Type: Core
Flight Proven: Yes
First Flight: November 23, 2025
Last Flight: May 26, 2026
Flights: 6
Landings Attempted: 6
Landings Successful: 6
Previous B1100 Flights

Landing Information

The Falcon 9 first stage B1100 has landed on ASDS OCISLY after its 6th flight.

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

SpaceX

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CEO: Elon Musk Founded: 2002 Successes: 672 Failures: 15 Pending: 135

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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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