SpaceX is on the point of kick off the again half of 2026 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg House Drive Base Wednesday evening.
The Starlink 17-46 mission will add one other 24 broadband web satellites to the corporate’s low Earth orbit constellation that consists of greater than 10,700 satellites. SpaceX launched almost 1,600 satellites in the course of the first half of 2026.
Liftoff from House Launch Complicated 4 East is scheduled for 7:57 p.m. PDT (10:57 p.m. EDT / 0257 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.
Spaceflight Now could have reside protection starting about half-hour previous to liftoff.
SpaceX will launch the Starlink 17-46 mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail quantity B1100. This shall be its seventh flight after beforehand launching the NROL-105 mission together with 5 earlier batches of Starlink satellites.
Just a little greater than eight minutes after liftoff, B1100 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 207th touchdown on this vessel and the 632nd booster touchdown for SpaceX so far.
