SpaceX is set to launch its penultimate Falcon 9 rocket of the month with a mid-morning flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday. The Starlink 17-19 mission will add another 25 satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit. Among the satellites will be the 11,000th Starlink satellite launched by the company since its first batch of production satellites were flown in May 2019. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 8:42:10 a.m. PST (11:42:10 a.m. EST / 1642:10 UTC). So far in 2026, SpaceX launched seven batches of Starlink satellites between its pads at Vandenberg Space Force Base and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.