{"id":122463,"date":"2025-09-05T18:53:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:53:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122463\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T18:53:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-05T18:53:07","slug":"spacex-completes-500th-booster-landing-in-starlink-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/122463\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX completes 500th booster landing in Starlink mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sept. 5 (UPI) &#8212; The SpaceX space technology company completed the 500th launch and landing of an orbital class booster Friday as it placed over two dozen satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starlink-10-57-b1069-ksc-jrti\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:lifted off from Launch Complex 39A;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">lifted off from Launch Complex 39A<\/a> at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center in Florida at 8:32 a.m. EDT, carrying a payload of 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">With the 28 newly added satellites, the Starlink megaconstellation now contains almost 8,400 active satellites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The rocket&#8217;s first stage landed about nine minutes later on the SpaceX droneship Just Read the Instructions off the coast of South Carolina, marking the 27th successful touchdown for that booster.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1963959998155002032\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:also noted on X;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">also noted on X<\/a> it&#8217;s also the 500th successful booster return for the company.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Friday launch was SpaceX&#8217;s 111th Falcon 9 mission of 2025, with the company looking to complete <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/09\/04\/live-coverage-spacex-aims-for-500th-falcon-booster-landing-amid-sunrise-starlink-mission\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:at least 170 Falcon rocket launches;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">at least 170 Falcon rocket launches<\/a> by year&#8217;s end.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The next Starlink mission <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-9\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:is slated to launch;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">is slated to launch<\/a> 24 more satellites aboard Falcon 9 on Saturday from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 5 (UPI) &#8212; The SpaceX space technology company completed the 500th launch and landing of an orbital&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":122464,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[49,48,5341,66,6888,12714,9126],"class_list":{"0":"post-122463","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-kennedy-space-center","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-spacex","13":"tag-spacex-falcon-9","14":"tag-starlink-satellites"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122463","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122463"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122463\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122464"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122463"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122463"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122463"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}