SpaceX Launches Starlink 10-54 at 8:37 a.m. EDT — What Time Is Spacex Launch Today
For anyone asking what time is spacex launch today, SpaceX lifted off its Starlink 10-54 mission at 8:37 a.m. EDT from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on June 12, 2026. The flight sent 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit and marked the company’s 650th Falcon 9 flight.
The booster on this mission was B1080, which landed on the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas a little more than eight minutes after liftoff. That was its 27th mission, and it brought SpaceX’s total to 623 booster landings.
Cape Canaveral and B1080
The launch came as the 45th Weather Squadron had forecast an 80 percent chance for favorable liftoff at the opening of the window. Meteorologists later lowered that to 70 percent as they watched cumulus clouds.
SpaceX also logged its 68th Falcon 9 launch of 2026 and its 55th dedicated Starlink launch of the year. The mission was the 56th overall flight featuring Starlink satellites in 2026, which shows how tightly the company is still pacing its deployment cadence.
SpaceX on Nasdaq
Gwynne Shotwell, SpaceX chief operating officer, said, “Today we make history again. We have a history of making history,” ahead of ringing the opening bell in New York. She also said, “We did open this morning in a rather exciting way. We launched a Falcon 9 and Starlink satellites to orbit. So what company would do such a thing on the day they open in the public market? SpaceX would.”
That timing gave the launch extra weight. SpaceX said it would sell 555.6 million shares of its Class A common stock at $135 each, a move it said would raise $75 billion and value the company at $1.77 trillion.
For readers tracking the company’s scale, SpaceX said in SEC disclosures that its income from its connectivity business was about $2 billion in 2024 and $4.4 billion in 2025. It also said it has more than 10,500 Starlink satellites in orbit, so this flight added to an already dense network rather than starting a new one.
Starlink 10-54 Scale
The unresolved question is how quickly SpaceX will keep pairing launch cadence with market scrutiny after opening on the Nasdaq for the first time more than 24 years after its founding in March 2002.
