{"id":789545,"date":"2026-07-09T02:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789545\/"},"modified":"2026-07-09T02:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-07-09T02:15:10","slug":"watch-a-spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launch-for-record-breaking-36th-time-early-on-july-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/789545\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch for record-breaking 36th time early on July 9"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and you can watch the action live.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9<\/a> is scheduled to lift off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> on Thursday at 5:25 a.m. EDT (0925 GMT), carrying 29 of the company’s Starlink<\/a> broadband satellites to low Earth orbit (LEO).<\/p>\n

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You can watch it live via SpaceX<\/a> beginning about 10 minutes before launch.<\/p>\n

This particular booster, known as 1067, has already completed 35 orbital missions, more than any other SpaceX rocket in history. The overall record is held by NASA’s space shuttle Discovery<\/a>, which flew to orbit and back 39 times.<\/p>\n

Thursday’s flight will extend Booster 1067’s company record. If all goes to plan, the rocket will come back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after liftoff, landing on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, will haul the 29 Starlink satellites to LEO, deploying them there 63.5 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

Previous Booster 1067 missions<\/p>\n

Thursday’s launch will be the 80th Falcon 9 mission of the year already. About 80% of the rocket’s 2026 flights have been devoted to building out Starlink, by far the largest satellite network ever assembled.<\/p>\n

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The megaconstellation currently consists of more than 10,700 active satellites, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>. And, as the upcoming launch shows, that number is growing all the time.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket will launch for a record-breaking 36th time early Thursday morning (July 9), and…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":723471,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[49,48,66,306],"class_list":["post-789545","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ca","tag-canada","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789545","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=789545"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/789545\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/723471"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=789545"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=789545"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=789545"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}