SpaceX sent another batch of its Starlink broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit today (Aug. 18), atop a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.

The launch, at 12:26 p.m. EDT (1626 GMT or 9:26 a.m. PDT local) on Monday marked the company's 100th Falcon 9 flight of 2025. It was SpaceX's 103rd mission overall for the year, including three suborbital test flights of Starship, the rocket being developed to land humans on the moon and Mars.

Monday's Falcon 9 mission reached its preliminary orbit about 9 minutes after leaving Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg and was on track to deploy the 24 Starlink satellites (Group 17-5) approximately 50 minutes later.

NROL-126 | Transporter-12 | SPHEREx | NROL-57 | Starlink Group 11-13 | Starlink Group

See Full Page