A SpaceX Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on 10 July 2026, Spaceflight Now reported — an event squarely inside the past week. The company has another Starlink mission logged for 13 July. Universal, uninterrupted coverage is, in a familiar pattern, two weeks from the next deployment.

A batch, deployed

The Starlink 17-48 mission lifted off on 10 July, carrying 24 satellites, per Spaceflight Now’s live coverage. Space.com described a Falcon 9 hauling 29 Starlinks from Vandenberg the same day. Each batch, officials note, is the one that achieves truly global reach — and each is followed by another batch.

“It is the most reliable rocket in California,” said an engineer who asked not to be named because he was, in fact, a fairing. “We launch. We deploy. We approach complete coverage. We schedule the next launch. The map fills in, two weeks at a time, indefinitely.”

The coverage that recedes

The constellation already exceeds 10,000 active satellites, but SpaceX says full, seamless global service still depends on further launches. The company confirmed the fully connected world is also roughly two weeks out, which it described as “a complete coincidence, repeated nightly.”

Users in previously unserved regions continued to come online this week; analysts noted that, by the site’s methodology, the day full coverage arrives is always two weeks from the current launch manifest.

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