{"id":169003,"date":"2025-09-25T21:56:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:56:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169003\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T21:56:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T21:56:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/169003\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250401_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing to launch its third Falcon 9 rocket in less than 41 hours. On deck is the flight of the Starlink 17-11 mission, which will take off from Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday night.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 9:17 p.m. PDT (12:17 a.m. EDT \/ 0417 UTC). The rocket will deploy 24 of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit a little more than an hour into the mission.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The mission will feature first stage booster B1082, making its 16th flight following the launches of NROL-145, USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20 and 12 previous batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1082 will perform an autonomous landing on the SpaceX drone ship, Of Course I Still Love You. If all goes well, this will be the 153rd landing with this vessel and the 512th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>The mission will be SpaceX\u2019s 475th launch of a flight-proven booster and the 540th overall launch of a Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":4066,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-169003","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\/169003","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=169003"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169003\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/4066"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169003"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169003"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169003"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}