{"id":159927,"date":"2025-09-21T20:05:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159927\/"},"modified":"2025-09-21T20:05:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-21T20:05:09","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-into-low-earth-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/159927\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Sept. 21 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit via a Falcon 9 rocket on Sunday from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The first stage booster from the launch returned to the drone ship A Shortfall of Gravitas in the Atlantic Ocean shortly after separating. It was the 11th time this first stage booster had been used by SpaceX, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-27\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:the aerospace company said;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">the aerospace company said<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Starlink satellites deployed around 1:04 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p>Advertisement<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Earlier this month, SpaceX carried out its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Science_News\/2025\/09\/13\/spacex-starlink-launch-california-falcon-9-rocket\/6791757779984\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:300th deployment;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">300th deployment<\/a> of Starlink communications satellites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The company has more than 8,000 of the satellites in low Earth orbit providing internet and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/Top_News\/US\/2025\/09\/08\/EchoStar-SpaceX-Direct-to-Cell-Starlink\/8851757332745\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:mobile broadband;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">mobile broadband<\/a> services to remote areas of the globe not covered by traditional Internet and mobile services.<\/p>\n<p><img alt=\"The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites. Photo by Joe Marino\/UPI\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"800\" height=\"534\" decoding=\"async\" data-nimg=\"1\" class=\"rounded-lg\" style=\"color:transparent\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/3ebe6517d6f6eb3b3d1dbff763271338.jpeg\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites. Photo by Joe Marino\/UPI<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 21 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched 28 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit via a Falcon 9 rocket&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":159928,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,21146,27004,22543,37842,66,306,6888,9126],"class_list":{"0":"post-159927","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-cape-canaveral-space-force-station","11":"tag-communications-satellites","12":"tag-falcon-9-rocket","13":"tag-low-earth-orbit","14":"tag-science","15":"tag-space","16":"tag-spacex","17":"tag-starlink-satellites"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159927","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=159927"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/159927\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/159928"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=159927"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=159927"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=159927"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}