{"id":196672,"date":"2025-10-08T02:48:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:48:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196672\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:48:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:48:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/196672\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Falcon-9_sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing for its next Falcon 9 rocket launch, which will add another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-17 mission will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 8:54 p.m. PDT (11:54 p.m. EDT \/ 0354 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch this mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1071. This is the second-most flown booster and this will be its 29th flight.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s previous missions include NASA\u2019s SWOT, five missions for the National Reconnaissance Office and four ride share missions (three Transporter and one Bandwagon).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1071 will target an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 156th landing on this vessel and the 516th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":196673,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":{"0":"post-196672","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\/196672","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=196672"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196672\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/196673"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=196672"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=196672"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=196672"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}