Overview
- SpaceX plans an early‑July mission from Vandenberg’s Space Launch Complex 4E to place 24 Starlink internet satellites into low‑Earth orbit.
- The company intends to fly a reusable Falcon 9 and recover the first‑stage booster on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.
- The launch is listed with an evening multi‑hour window and is described as developing, so the exact timing and plans remain subject to change.
- The flight follows recent West Coast operations that used rapid booster reuse and at‑sea recoveries, practices that support a high cadence of Starlink deployments.
- Separately, the U.S. Space Force cleared old structures at Vandenberg’s SLC‑6 for a multi‑month rebuild, a move that could expand West Coast launch capacity and has drawn local and regulatory scrutiny over noise and environmental impacts.