{"id":67712,"date":"2025-08-14T13:25:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67712\/"},"modified":"2025-08-14T13:25:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-14T13:25:08","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-from-california-with-new-batch-of-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/67712\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California with new batch of Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX continued the growth of its broadband internet service with the launch of 24 more Starlink<\/a> satellites from California on Thursday (Aug. 14).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off at 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 GMT or 10:05 p.m. PDT on Aug. 13 local) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base. About nine minutes later, after a nominal ascent, the Starlink Group 17-4<\/a> mission reached space.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, powered by single Merlin engine, was on track to reach its planned orbit and deploy the satellites about an hour after it left Earth.<\/p>\n

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The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands vertically atop a droneship in the Pacific Ocean on Aug. 14, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Also to plan, the Falcon’s first stage (Booster 1093) completed its fifth flight, landing on the drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” in the Pacific Ocean. All of the booster’s missions have been dedicated to growing SpaceX<\/a>‘s megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

With this launch, there are now more than 8,100 active Starlink satellites out of the nearly 9,400 launched since 2018, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Thursday morning’s launch from California was SpaceX’s 98th Falcon 9 mission in 2025 and 516th flight since 2010. It was the 452nd reuse of a Falcon 9 first stage and 487th landing.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX continued the growth of its broadband internet service with the launch of 24 more Starlink satellites from…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67713,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[64,63,128,285],"class_list":["post-67712","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\/67712","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=67712"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67712\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67713"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67712"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67712"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67712"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}