{"id":123353,"date":"2025-09-06T14:36:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:36:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123353\/"},"modified":"2025-09-06T14:36:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-06T14:36:08","slug":"spacex-to-pass-2000-starlink-satellites-deployed-in-2025-with-saturday-launch-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/123353\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to pass 2,000 Starlink satellites deployed in 2025 with Saturday launch \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch its 2,000th Starlink satellite of the year when its Falcon 9 rocket takes flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-9, will carry 24 broadband satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 11:05 a.m. PDT (2:05 p.m. EDT \/ 1805 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will use its Falcon 9 first stage booster B1075, which will launch for a 20th time. Some of its previous missions include Transporter-11, SDA-0A and 16 batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Eight minutes, 19 seconds after liftoff, the first stage will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This will be the 149th touchdown on this vessel and SpaceX\u2019s 501st booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":123354,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-123353","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123353","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=123353"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/123353\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/123354"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=123353"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=123353"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=123353"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}