Falcon 9 Launches Starlink 17-41 — 67th Orbital Mission of 2026; SpaceX's 50th Dedicated Starlink Mission; B1082 22nd Flight; OCISLY 199th Landing

SpaceX Falcon 9 booster B1082 lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, at 11:25 AM EDT (15:25 UTC) on May 30, 2026, carrying 24 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to low Earth orbit on a south-southwesterly polar trajectory. This was B1082's 22nd flight — a veteran booster previously flown on USSF-62, NROL-145, and OneWeb Launch 20. The first stage executed a downrange burn and landed on the autonomous spaceport drone ship 'Of Course I Still Love You' (OCISLY) in the Pacific Ocean, OCISLY's 199th touchdown and the 618th cumulative SpaceX booster recovery. This mission was SpaceX's 67th orbital launch of 2026 and its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of the year — a record pace with a full month still on the calendar. Coverage noted this as the first time SpaceX completed 50 Starlink missions before June in any calendar year. Combined with the 14 Falcon 9 launches flown in May 2026 (including Starship IFT-12 on May 22), May 2026 became SpaceX's most active single launch month in company history. The Starlink constellation now exceeds approximately 10,534 active satellites across all orbital shells, with approximately 12,138 total launched since 2019.