{"id":44490,"date":"2025-08-04T11:55:09","date_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:55:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44490\/"},"modified":"2025-08-04T11:55:09","modified_gmt":"2025-08-04T11:55:09","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-from-florida-lands-rocket-at-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/44490\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites from Florida, lands rocket at sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida early this morning (Aug. 4).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 28 Starlink<\/a> spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> today at 3:57 a.m. EDT (0757 GMT). It was SpaceX’s 96th Falcon 9 launch of the year already.<\/p>\n

The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth<\/a> about 8.5 minutes later as planned, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean on “Just Read the Instructions,” one of SpaceX’s<\/a> drone ships.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Aug. 4, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

According to a SpaceX mission description<\/a>, it was the 21st flight for this particular booster, which is known as B-1080. Fifteen of those missions have been Starlink launches.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 28 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a>, where they’re scheduled to be deployed 64 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

They’ll have a lot of company up there. The Starlink megaconstellation, the largest satellite assemblage ever built, consists of more than 8,000<\/a> operational satellites, and it’s growing all the time.<\/p>\n

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