SpaceX's stock wasn't the company's only launch today β It also put 29 Starlink satellites in orbit Space By: robert@collectspace.com (Robert Z. Pearlman) 12 June 2026 at 21:19 Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket occurred at 8:27 a.m. ET, just over an hour before SpaceX went public on the NASDAQ stock market.