Vandenberg, CA — Starlink 17-18

SpaceX launched 25 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg SFB's SLC-4E at 4:00 AM PDT on March 8. Booster B1097, on its seventh flight, landed on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Pacific, the 182nd landing on that vessel. The sonic boom's southeastward propagation was clearly visible in web traffic, hitting Goleta and Santa Barbara first around 4:11 AM PDT, reaching Oxnard two minutes later, then Agoura Hills by 4:15 AM, and finally the Los Angeles basin around 4:17 AM, covering roughly 80 miles from the Central Coast to North Hollywood in about 7 minutes.