spacex starlink vandenberg launch

Update April 29, 11:17 p.m. EDT (0317 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster. Following a successful Falcon Heavy launch from Florida on Wednesday morning, SpaceX rounded out the day by launching a Falcon 9 rocket from California. The Starlink 17-36 mission will add another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company’s massive low Earth orbit constellation. This was the 42nd mission sending Starlink satellites into space this year. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base happened at 7:42:49 pm PDT (10:42:49 pm EDT / 0242:49 UTC). The rocket flew on a south-southwes