{"id":141253,"date":"2025-09-13T23:18:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:18:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141253\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T23:18:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T23:18:09","slug":"spacex-launches-300th-starlink-satellite-internet-mission-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/141253\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 300th Starlink satellite-internet mission (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX just lofted yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 24 Starlink craft lifted off from foggy Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California today (Sept. 13) at 1:55 p.m. EDT (1755 GMT; 10:55 a.m. local California time).<\/p>\n

It was the 300th Starlink mission that SpaceX<\/a> has launched to date, according to the company<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the Falcon 9’s first stage touched down in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” It was the 28th launch and landing for this particular booster, which is designated B1071.<\/p>\n

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That’s two away from the reuse record, which a different Falcon 9 booster set late last month<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Previous Booster 1071 missions<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage continued hauling the 24 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit<\/a>, where they were deployed 62.5 minutes after liftoff, according to SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The new arrivals are joining more than 8,300<\/a> other active spacecraft in the Starlink network, by far the largest satellite constellation ever assembled.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n

Today’s launch was the 115th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year. More than 70% of these missions have been Starlink flights.<\/p>\n

Editor’s note: This story was updated at 5 p.m. ET on Sept. 13 with news of successful satellite deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX just lofted yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites to orbit. A Falcon 9 rocket carrying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141254,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-141253","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\/141253","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=141253"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141253\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141254"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141253"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141253"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141253"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}