Update Dec. 2, 1:40 a.m. EST (0640 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the 27 Starlink satellites.
SpaceX launch its latest Falcon 9 rocket of the year from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Monday evening.
The Starlink 15-10 mission added another 27 broadband internet satellites to the company’s massive low Earth orbit constellation. By the end of November, it had launched more than 2,800 Starlink satellites this year alone.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 9:28 p.m. PST (12:28 a.m. EST / 0528 UTC).
SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1081. This was the 20th flight of this booster after flying missions, including NASA’s Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE and TRACERS.
Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1081 landed on the drone ship, ‘Of Course I Still Love You’. This was the 166th landing on this vessel and the 542nd booster landing to date.
Amazing. We are in the desert great pi tures
Is there a viewing area in Southern California next to the space launch area that individual can watch the launch from?
This is really amazing
Amazing. We are in the desert great pi tures
We saw it from our front room window. Impressive!
why didn’t I see it….Looked Northwest in the sky from Imperial Beach …Where was it???
Impresionante vista del lanzamiento del satélite Falcón 9 hasta que se perdió al norte de Imperial Beach
Well I seen one for the first time in the sky above my place in dominican republic, as it flew by , it looked like a large jet spray then it stopped and the light, I call it ,detached from rocket and kept going,so I resurched it on line and found that it was space x deploying starlink satilights, it was just after sunset so it caught my eye in the evening sky. Dec,2,2025.
Witnessed it first hand from 32,000′ on SWA flight 4409 SNA-SJC from the front left seat…thanks for the show!