{"id":71119,"date":"2025-08-15T07:59:08","date_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:59:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71119\/"},"modified":"2025-08-15T07:59:08","modified_gmt":"2025-08-15T07:59:08","slug":"spacex-launches-starlink-satellites-from-florida-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/71119\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida, California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Aug. 14 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched new batches of Starlink satellites from California and Florida to continue the growth of its broadband Internet service.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The California launch lifted off <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-4\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:at 1:05 a.m. EDT;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">at 1:05 a.m. EDT<\/a> from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday, it carried 24 more Starlink Satellites.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">It took roughly an hour for the upper stage to deploy its satellites after it left Earth.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch was SpaceX&#8217;s 98th Falcon 9 mission in 2025 and now there are 8,100 active satellites out of the nearly 9,400 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starlink-17-4-b1093-vsfs-ocisly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:launched in 2018.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">launched in 2018.<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">Meanwhile, the Florida launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/08\/14\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-9\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:took off at 8:29 a.m.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \">took off at 8:29 a.m.<\/a> EDT on Thursday with a batch of 28 V2 mini satellites, this was also the 69th orbital launch from Florida this year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"mb-4 text-lg md:leading-8 break-words\">The launch had a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-20\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" data-ylk=\"slk:90% chance of favorable weather.;elm:context_link;itc:0;sec:content-canvas\" class=\"link \"> 90% chance of favorable weather.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Aug. 14 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched new batches of Starlink satellites from California and Florida to continue the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":71120,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[44460,49,3335,48,6388,44461,66,306,6888,9126],"class_list":["post-71119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-broadband-internet-service","tag-ca","tag-california","tag-canada","tag-florida","tag-florida-launch","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71119","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=71119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/71119\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/71120"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=71119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=71119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=71119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}