{"id":739005,"date":"2026-06-15T20:49:11","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:49:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739005\/"},"modified":"2026-06-15T20:49:11","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T20:49:11","slug":"spacex-sends-24-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-1st-launch-as-a-public-company-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/739005\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX sends 24 Starlink satellites to orbit on 1st launch as a public company (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX sent 24 Starlink satellites to orbit on Monday (June 15) \u2014 a number that nearly matched the percentage-point jump the company’s stock has taken on its first day of trading after going public on Friday (June 12).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9 <\/a>rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California today at 11:34 a.m. EDT (1534 GMT; 8:34 a.m. PDT local time).<\/p>\n

SpaceX<\/a>, which now trades under the ticker symbol SPCX on the Nasdaq Stock Exchange, confirmed a successful satellite deployment<\/a> about an hour after the launch.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launches from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Monday, June 15, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9’s first stage (Booster B1093) landed on the autonomous drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” positioned in the Pacific Ocean. It was the 14th flight for the booster.<\/p>\n

The satellites (known as Group 17-54<\/a>) raised the Starlink<\/a> megaconstellation to 10,660 active units, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>. The network provides broadband internet access around the world, powers some airlines’ inflight wifi and enables direct cell-to-satellite access for select providers.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX’s Group 17-54 Starlink satellites are seen in orbit on June 15, 2026, before deploying from the upper stage of their Falcon 9 rocket. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

SpaceX’s IPO<\/a> (initial public offering) on Friday was the largest in history, valuing the company at $1.77 trillion and making founder and CEO Elon Musk<\/a> the world’s first trillionaire. More than 4,400 of the company’s past and present employers are estimated to have become millionaires thanks to the move.<\/p>\n

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The stock was trading at more than $180 per share at the time this article was published.<\/p>\n

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Monday’s launch was SpaceX’s 69th Falcon 9 mission of the year. More than 80% of those flights have been Starlink missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX sent 24 Starlink satellites to orbit on Monday (June 15) \u2014 a number that nearly matched the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":739006,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-739005","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739005","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=739005"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/739005\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/739006"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=739005"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=739005"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=739005"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}