When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 20 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Oct. 15, 2024. (Image credit: SpaceX via X) SpaceX will launch 20 Starlink internet satellites from California early Thursday morning (Nov. 7), just hours after lofting another batch from the East Coast. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink spacecraft — 13 of which have direct-to-cell capability — is scheduled to lift off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday, during a three-hour window that opens at 2:02 a.m. EST (0602 GMT; 11:02 p.m. Nov. 6 local time). The company also plans to launch 23 Starlink craft from Florida on Wednesday evening, at 7:39 p.m. EST (2339 GMT). SpaceX will webcast both launches live via X, beginning about five minutes before liftoff. If all goes according to plan on Thursday morning, the Falcon 9's first stage will come back to Earth for a vertical touchdown about eight minutes after liftoff on the droneship "Of Course I Still Love You," which will be stationed in the Pacific Ocean. You may like