{"id":227180,"date":"2025-10-20T10:05:06","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:05:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227180\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T10:05:06","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T10:05:06","slug":"spacex-launches-10000th-starlink-internet-satellite","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/227180\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 10,000th Starlink internet satellite"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Starlink\/status\/1980017152208826631\" rel=\"nofollow\">surpassing 10,000 total satellites <\/a>launched into low Earth orbit to date. The milestone was reached on board the 132nd Falcon 9 launch of 2025, tying the previous annual launch record with more than two full months to go in the year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">Of those 10k satellites, only about 8,608 are currently operational, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Jonathan McDowell\u2019s satellite tracker calculations<\/a>. Starlink satellites have a lifespan of roughly five years before they\u2019re intentionally de-orbited to burn up in the atmosphere. The first Starlink prototypes launched in February 2018 ahead of its 2021 commercial service offering.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup duet--article--standard-paragraph _1ymtmqpi _17nnmdy1 _17nnmdy0 _1xwtict1\">SpaceX has approval to launch 12,000 satellites \u2014 with over 30,000 planned \u2014 to bring fast, low-latency internet to the world. Others like Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper and efforts in Europe and China, have their own mega constellation plans, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theverge.com\/space\/657113\/starlink-amazon-satellites\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">raising concerns about the threat caused by overcrowding<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Sunday, SpaceX launched 56 additional Starlink satellites on separate Falcon 9 rockets, surpassing 10,000 total satellites launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":227181,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,44,128,285,5437,1996,137463],"class_list":{"0":"post-227180","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex","14":"tag-tech","15":"tag-work-anywhere"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227180","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=227180"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/227180\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227181"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=227180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=227180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=227180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}