{"id":115018,"date":"2025-09-03T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115018\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T06:28:07","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-from-california-on-brand-new-falcon-9-rocket","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/115018\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California on brand-new Falcon 9 rocket"},"content":{"rendered":"

Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just earned its wings.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> with a brand-new first stage lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California today (Sept. 2) at 11:51 p.m. EDT (8:51 p.m. local time; 0351 GMT on Sept. 3), carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink<\/a> internet satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

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Such debuts are rare for SpaceX<\/a>, which is famous for its extensive rocket reuse. Indeed, one of its Falcon 9 boosters flew for a record 30th time<\/a> just last week.<\/p>\n

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And the booster that launched today will get a chance to fly again: It aced its landing, coming down at sea on the SpaceX drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” about 8.5 minutes after liftoff as planned.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the Starlink satellites toward LEO. They’re scheduled to be deployed 62.5 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

The new batch will join nearly 8,300<\/a> other operational Starlink satellites up there, continuing to flesh out the biggest spacecraft network ever assembled.<\/p>\n

Many of those Starlinks have gone up this year. Today’s launch was the 109th Falcon 9 flight of 2025, and more than 70% of them have been Starlink missions.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just earned its wings. A Falcon 9 with a brand-new first stage lifted…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":115019,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-115018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115018","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=115018"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/115018\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/115019"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=115018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=115018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=115018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}