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VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch carrying 25 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit is scheduled to launch from Vandenberg SFB between 1 p.m. and 5 p.m. local time, Wednesday March 4, 2026.

Firefly Aerospace is set to return its Alpha rocket to flight on the “Stairway To Seven” mission on Friday, Feb. 27. Liftoff is scheduled for 4:50 PM PST (00:50 UTC on Saturday, Feb. 28) from Space Launch Complex 2 West (SLC-2W) at the VSFB in California. Alpha will fly on a southwestern trajectory into LEO.

SpaceX halted Falcon 9 launches for a week while it investigated that issue, which was traced to a fuel leak in one of the booster's nine Merlin engines. This leak led to a fire shortly after touchdown, which weakened a landing leg and caused the vehicle to tip over.

VANDENBERG SPACE FORCE BASE, Calif. (KEYT) – A Falcon 9 launch carrying 25 Starlink satellites destined for low-Earth orbit from Vandenberg SFB is scheduled between midnight and 4 a.m. on Sunday, March 1, 2026.

SpaceX flew a Falcon 9 first-stage booster for a record-setting number of missions, breaking the company’s own reuse benchmark during the rocket’s second Starlink satellite deployment. The flight demonstrated how aggressively SpaceX is pushing the boundaries of booster reusability,

Two Falcon 9 launches from Florida and one from California deployed 83 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit, wrapping up February 2026 for the SpaceX network.