{"id":253262,"date":"2025-10-31T22:44:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253262\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:44:08","slug":"spacex-launches-100th-successful-starlink-mission-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/253262\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 100th successful Starlink mission of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Oct. 31 (UPI) &#8212; A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 28 Starlink satellites into space before decoupling and returning to Earth following a successful launch on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch occurred at 1:41 p.m. PDT from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and the Falcon 9 booster rocket successfully landed on the deck of the drone ship named Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mission was the 100th Starlink launch in 2025 and was the 139th Falcon 9 mission this year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-100th-starlink-satellite-launch-2025\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:according to Space.com;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">according to Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch also was the 29th for the Falcon 9 booster rocket with tail number B1063 and is two short of the most for any Falcon 9 booster rocket, which is 31 launches, <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/launch-schedule\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:Spaceflight Now;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">Spaceflight Now<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The booster rocket is the oldest still used by SpaceX and made its first launch on Nov. 21, 2020.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The successful landing was the 162nd for the drone ship and the 527th in total for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Friday&#8217;s mission originally was scheduled a day earlier, but was delayed due to technical difficulties.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Starlink mini satellites were deployed in low Earth orbit about an hour after the launch to become part of the mega-constellation of Starlink satellites that provide wireless communications anywhere in the world.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The world has more than 8,800 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, and SpaceX has deployed more than 2,500 of them so far in 2025.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Eight more missions are scheduled before Thanksgiving that would deploy another 228 satellites to the mega-constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 31 (UPI) &#8212; A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 28 Starlink satellites into space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253263,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[69065,49,48,66,306,12714,248,9127],"class_list":{"0":"post-253262","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-booster-rocket","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex-falcon-9","14":"tag-starlink","15":"tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253262","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=253262"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253262\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253263"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253262"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253262"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253262"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}