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SpaceX Launches More Starlinks Into Space From Vandenberg

Wednesday December 04, 2024

(Launch file photo courtesy SpaceX)

     Updated--SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink internet satellites into low earth orbit Wednesday evening from Vandenberg Space Force Base in Santa Barbara County.

     Liftoff was at 7:05 PM PST, three hours into a four hour launch window.

     The payload on board the Falcon 9 rocket was another 20 Starlink satellites, 13 of them with direct to cell capability.

     This was an even dozen launches for the first stage of this Falcon 9 rocket.

     It returned to earth and landed on the droneship off the Southern California coast around 7:13 PM PST.