{"id":197304,"date":"2025-10-08T10:40:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:40:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197304\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T10:40:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T10:40:07","slug":"spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-launches-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/197304\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket launches 90th Starlink mission of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oct. 7 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX hit a milestone on Tuesday after dozens of new Starlink satellites were launched into orbit in its 130th launch this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX added that its workhorse Falcon 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/10\/06\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:rocket saw its;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">rocket saw its<\/a> 126th flight of 2025 as the Starlink 10-59 mission took off in the early morning hours.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mission adds 28 more satellites to the growing megaconstellation of more than 8,500 Starlink devices flying in low Earth orbit in order to expand global broadband Internet access.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 saw liftoff at 2:46 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, after persistent daily storms over the Atlantic Ocean and central Florida put a wrench in launch efforts over the last week.<\/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\">It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starlink-satellite-launch-group-10-59-asog\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:first stage arrived as;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">first stage arrived as<\/a> planned less than nine minutes later in the Atlantic Ocean on SpaceX&#8217;s A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, it was the eighth launch and landing for the designated B1090 booster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 7 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX hit a milestone on Tuesday after dozens of new Starlink satellites were launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":197305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306,6888,9126],"class_list":["post-197304","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197304","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=197304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/197304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/197305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=197304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=197304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=197304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}