SpaceX is slated to fly its closing Starlink mission of the month with a Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg House Power Base on Sunday morning.
The Starlink 17-40 mission will add one other 24 broadband web satellites to SpaceX’s low Earth orbit constellation. The corporate has greater than 10,700 satellites at the moment in obit with a purpose to statistics tracked by astronomer and orbital tracker, Jonathan McDowell.
Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from House Launch Advanced 4 East is scheduled at 7:36 a.m. PDT (10:36 a.m. EDT / 1436 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Spaceflight Now may have dwell protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the Starlink 17-40 mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity B1088. This shall be its seventeenth flight following the launch of missions, like NASA’s SPHEREx, Transporter-12, and NROL-126.
Just a little greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1088 will goal a touchdown on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Nonetheless Love You’, positioned within the Pacific Ocean. If profitable, this would be the 206th touchdown on this vessel and the 630th booster touchdown so far.
In the course of the first half of 2026, following this launch, SpaceX may have launched its Falcon 9 rockets a complete of 75 occasions. Of these 59 had been in help of its Starlink constellation.
Right here’s a breakdown of SpaceX’s Starlink launches per 30 days versus its whole for that month:
- January – 9/13
- February – 11/12
- March – 13/15
- April – 9/11
- Could – 8/11
- June – 10/13 (following the Starlink 17-40 launch)
