SpaceX Launches Starlink 15-23, Its 104th Falcon-Family Orbital Mission of 2026

SpaceX launched the Starlink 15-23 mission at 1:42 a.m. PDT (4:42 a.m. EDT / 0842 UTC) on September 2, 2026 from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, deploying 27 V2-Mini Starlink satellites roughly an hour into flight. Booster B1063 flew its 35th mission and landed on the droneship 'Of Course I Still Love You' in the Pacific about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. The mission was SpaceX's 104th Falcon-family orbital launch of 2026 and the year's 79th Starlink mission, continuing the post-Florida-Starlink-era pattern of concentrating West Coast Starlink cadence at Vandenberg while Cape Canaveral's Falcon 9 pad prepares for Starship's East Coast debut.