{"id":242635,"date":"2025-10-26T19:46:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:46:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242635\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T19:46:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T19:46:07","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/242635\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 26 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SpaceX\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> launched 28 satellites into low Earth orbit just after 11 a.m.. EDT Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, adding to the company&#8217;s growing fleet of Starlink communications satellites.<\/p>\n<p>It was SpaceX&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/live-story\/tech\/science\/space\/spacex\/2025\/10\/26\/when-is-liftoff-spacex-rocket-launch-in-florida-early-sunday-updates\/86862039007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">89th launch from Florida<\/a> this year, closing in on last year&#8217;s total of 93.\n<\/p>\n<p>Following liftoff to the northeast against a brilliant morning Florida sky, the Falcon 9 rocket jettisoned its first stage reusable fuel booster about 8.5 minutes later, which returned to the droneship, &#8220;A Shortfall of Gravitas,&#8221; stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 24th mission for this fuel booster.<\/p>\n<p>The mission had been delayed five times prior to the Sunday launch, dating back to Oct. 18.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 26 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched 28 satellites into low Earth orbit just after 11 a.m.. EDT Sunday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":242636,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[64,63,99,128,285,5437,105],"class_list":{"0":"post-242635","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-business","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex","14":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242635","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=242635"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/242635\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/242636"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=242635"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=242635"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=242635"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}