Falcon 9 follows its slowest stretch with another 27 Starlinks from California
From the Space digest for Oct 27, 2026
What happened: On Tuesday, October 27, 2026, Falcon 9 launched 27 Starlink satellites — Group 15-16 — from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California, on veteran booster B1082-26, per NASASpaceflight's launch call and Stocktwits coverage. The mission came four days after Falcon 9's Group 15-15 launch from the same pad on October 23, in a stretch that local reporting on October 24–26 framed as the Falcon 9 cadence slowing as a record-setting Vandenberg launch count sat days away.
What's genuinely new: The mission itself — Starlink Group 15-16 is a new flight number on top of the Group 15-15 flight of October 23, and it lands inside the days that Ventura County Star and USA Today reporting pegged for a record-setting Vandenberg launch, though neither of today's sources confirms whether this flight set California's annual record.
Watch: Whether the October 27 flight or the one remaining SpaceX mission still inside October at Vandenberg sets the state's annual launch record, the final count, and how the West Coast Falcon 9 Starlink line tracks against the traded-away East Coast cadence.
Sources NASASpaceflight Stocktwits