Santa Paula, CA — Starlink 17-24

SpaceX launched 25 Starlink satellites from Vandenberg SFB's SLC-4E at 10:19 PM PDT on March 16. Booster B1088, on its 14th flight, landed on the drone ship "Of Course I Still Love You" in the Pacific, the 184th landing on that vessel. This mission pushed the Starlink constellation past 10,000 simultaneously active satellites for the first time. The sonic boom propagated inland, reaching Santa Barbara about 11 minutes after liftoff, then Bakersfield and Santa Paula in Ventura County shortly after, a pattern consistent with previous Vandenberg launches.