SpaceX Caps Starlink Double Header With 24-Satellite California Launch Written 13 August 2026
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California carrying 24 Starlink satellites to orbit. | Credit: Spaceflight Now; YouTube; Framegrab
SPACE reports SpaceX launched 24 more of its Starlink global internet satellite constellation to orbit from “from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Aug. 12, at 12:46 p.m. EDT (0346 GMT; 9:46 p.m. local time). The mission, Starlink Group 17-49, carried 24 of the broadband spacecraft to low Earth orbit (LEO) to join SpaceX’s growing constellation of more than 10,000 satellites.”
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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California
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