{"id":345441,"date":"2025-12-14T21:30:07","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:30:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345441\/"},"modified":"2025-12-14T21:30:07","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T21:30:07","slug":"spacex-adds-27-satellites-to-its-growing-starlink-internet-constellation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/345441\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX adds 27 satellites to its growing Starlink internet constellation"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Dec. 14 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX landed its 550th reusable fuel booster rocket following a late night Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California Saturday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The mission added another 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to SpaceX&#8217;s growing fleet of broadband internet satellites in low-Earth orbit. <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/12\/13\/live-coverage-spacex-aims-for-550th-booster-landing-amid-saturday-night-flight\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:It lifted off;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">It lifted off<\/a> at 9:49 p.m. PST.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">About 8.5 minutes following the launch, the fuel booster, B1093, landed on the SpaceX drone ship &#8220;Of Course I Still Love You,&#8221; stationed in the Pacific Ocean.<\/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 was the 170th landing on this drone ship, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ksby.com\/news\/local-news\/spacex-targeting-saturday-evening-for-launch-of-falcon-9-from-vandenberg-sfb\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:451st overall;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">451st overall<\/a> SpaceX drone landing.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The Saturday night launch was the ninth time this fuel booster was used to launch a SpaceX rocket, two of which were for the Space Development Agency as well as six Starlink satellite missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dec. 14 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX landed its 550th reusable fuel booster rocket following a late night Falcon 9&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":345442,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[150648,49,48,150649,66,6888,12709,9126,9127],"class_list":{"0":"post-345441","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-broadband-internet","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-fuel-booster","12":"tag-science","13":"tag-spacex","14":"tag-spacex-rocket","15":"tag-starlink-satellites","16":"tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345441","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=345441"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/345441\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/345442"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=345441"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=345441"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=345441"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}