SpaceX launch today is set for 24 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 24. The Falcon 9 liftoff is scheduled for 11:19 p.m. EDT, which gives Starlink another batch of capacity while SpaceX keeps adding to a network already described as nearly 10,700 active units.
Vandenberg Space Force Base launch
The rocket is slated to rise from California's central coast at 8:19 p.m. local time, with 0319 GMT on June 25 as the corresponding time mark. SpaceX will provide live coverage about 10 minutes before liftoff, so anyone watching can see the countdown without waiting for the first-stage event.
The mission will carry 24 broadband spacecraft to low Earth orbit. That is a small slice of the total constellation, but the cadence is the point: this flight is the 59th of 2026 devoted to building out Starlink.
B1081 on its 25th flight
The first stage is expected to land about 8.5 minutes after launch on the SpaceX drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. The booster B1081 will be making its 25th flight, a heavy-reuse milestone that sits beside a launch flow still moving satellites upward at pace.
That reuse matters because each additional flight on the same booster reduces the need to treat every mission as a one-off hardware event. It also shows how SpaceX and Starlink are pairing frequent launches with a spacecraft fleet that keeps growing instead of standing still.
62-minute deployment
The upper stage is expected to deploy the 24 satellites just under 62 minutes into flight. If the timeline holds, the payload reaches its planned orbit in the same launch window that produced the liftoff, landing, and deployment sequence the company is trying to make routine.
The unanswered item is whether weather or technical issues could change the June 24 schedule. Live coverage starts about 10 minutes before liftoff, which is the moment to watch if the goal is to see whether the launch stays on the board.
