{"id":232663,"date":"2025-10-22T19:48:16","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:48:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232663\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T19:48:16","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T19:48:16","slug":"spacex-launches-record-breaking-falcon-9-flight-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/232663\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches record-breaking Falcon 9 flight | News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p dir=\"ltr\">(The Center Square)\u00a0\u2013 SpaceX broke its record Wednesday morning for its number of Falcon 9 launches in a single year.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">This year\u2019s 133rd Falcon launch took off, with no problems and a minimum of fanfare, at 7:16 a.m. PDT from Vandenberg Space Force Base in northern Santa Barbara County. Except for a few clouds, skies were clear at the Southern California site just off the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">It was a routine launch. Mission control announcers during a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-11-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">spacex.com<\/a>\u00a0broadcast, which didn\u2019t have any studio anchors, spoke calmly during the mission deploying 28 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cGo, Space X. Go, Falcon. Go, Starlink,\u201d one announcer said calmly with slight inflection as the Falcon 9 was launched from Vandenberg.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">Interest remains high in the launches. More than 45,000 viewers watched the live <a href=\"http:\/\/spacex.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">spacex.com<\/a> broadcast of the launch. As usual, it featured views from the cameras on the Falcon 9&#8217;s two stages as the rocket soared.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">\u201cNever gets old!\u201d one viewer posted on SpaceX\u2019s page <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1981000001187664162\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">on X<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The first and second stages separated at 2 minutes, 28 seconds, according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">And the first stage, the reusable portion, landed at 8 minutes, 22 seconds in the Pacific Ocean &#8211; right on its target on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship called Of Course I Still Love You.\u00a0The camera on the rocket showed the drone ship below it as it touched down, upright on the ship. The landing was also shown from the point of view of a camera on Of Course I Still Love You.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">SpaceX said this was the 21st flight for this particular first-stage booster.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The mission&#8217;s Starlink satellites, which bring low-cost internet to remote areas, were deployed one hour after launch, Space X said.<\/p>\n<p dir=\"ltr\">The company noted it was possible residents in Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo and Ventura counties heard one or more sonic booms during the launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"(The Center Square)\u00a0\u2013 SpaceX broke its record Wednesday morning for its number of Falcon 9 launches in a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170361,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[34327,110383,110381,58765,110377,49,3335,48,98166,110379,12743,20652,98168,2036,110382,98169,110380,97332,110376,66,110378,5781,110384,58769,58766,19727,58768,2877,98167,58764,58775,6888,248,9127],"class_list":["post-232663","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-aerospace","tag-aerospace-companies","tag-aerospace-companies-of-the-united-states","tag-astronautics","tag-autonomous-spaceport-drone-ship","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-commercial-launch-service-providers","tag-commercial-spaceflight","tag-falcon-9","tag-flight","tag-hawthorne","tag-outer-space","tag-private-spaceflight","tag-private-spaceflight-companies","tag-rocket-engine-manufacturers-of-the-united-states","tag-rocketry","tag-routine-launch","tag-science","tag-space-access","tag-space-industry","tag-space-organizations","tag-space-program-of-the-united-states","tag-space-programs","tag-space-science","tag-space-vehicles","tag-spacecraft","tag-spacecraft-manufacturers","tag-spaceflight","tag-spaceflight-technology","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232663","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=232663"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232663\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170361"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232663"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232663"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232663"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}