{"id":513574,"date":"2026-03-02T09:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513574\/"},"modified":"2026-03-02T09:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-02T09:18:16","slug":"spacex-to-launches-25-starlink-satellites-from-the-west-coast-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/513574\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launches 25 Starlink Satellites from the West Coast \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260301-Starlink-17-23-Launch.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260301-Starlink-17-23-Launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72709\"  \/><\/a>The Falcon 9 first stage B1082 lifts off on the Starlink 17-23 from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base on March 1, 2026. Image: SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket early Sunday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, carrying another batch of satellites for the company\u2019s Starlink internet service.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Starlink 17-23 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East occurred at 2:10:39 a.m. PST (5:10:39 a.m. EST \/ 1010:39 UTC). The rocket, carrying 25 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, took southerly trajectory on departure from the launch site in central California.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Falcon 9 booster B1082 was making its 20th flight since its inaugural flight in January 2024. It previously launched the USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20 and NROL-145 missions, plus 15 Starlink deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>The booster landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean, just over eight minutes after leaving the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>The 25 satellites stacked atop the second stage were successfully deployed a little over an hour into flight, SpaceX said in a social media post.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Falcon 9 first stage B1082 lifts off on the Starlink 17-23 from SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":513575,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-513574","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513574","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=513574"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/513574\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/513575"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=513574"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=513574"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=513574"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}