3… 2… 1… SpaceX launches Starlink satellites on third-to-last mission, scheduled for 2024

SpaceX has begun the countdown to the new year with the launch of the first of three rockets planned by the end of 2024.

A Falcon 9 rocket carrying 22 of the company’s Starlink satellites lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Saturday (December 28). The mission launched at 8:48 p.m. EST (5:48 p.m. PST local time or 0148 GMT on December 29) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E).