{"id":153611,"date":"2025-11-22T11:05:12","date_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:05:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153611\/"},"modified":"2025-11-22T11:05:12","modified_gmt":"2025-11-22T11:05:12","slug":"spacex-launches-the-100th-mission-of-the-year-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/153611\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches the 100th mission of the year from\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 20, 2025. It was the 100th overall liftoff of the year from Florida. .<\/p>\n

Another SpaceX launch, another milestone.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket launched from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> tonight (Nov. 20) at 10:39 p.m. EST (0339 GMT on Nov. 21), carrying 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> internet satellites to orbit.<\/p>\n

It was the 100th liftoff of the year from the Sunshine State, a nice round number that had never been reached before.<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 20, 2025 (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth<\/a> as planned about 8.5 minutes after liftoff tonight, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean on the SpaceX<\/a> droneship “Just Read the Instructions.” It was the 23rd flight for this particular booster, which carries the designation 1080.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the Starlink craft toward low Earth orbit<\/a>, where they’ll be deployed about 65 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

‘SpaceX is responsible for the vast majority of this year’s record-breaking rocket traffic from the Space Coast, which features two side-by-side spaceports: Cape Canaveral Space Force Station and NASA’s Kennedy Space Center<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Elon Musk<\/a>‘s company has now launched a total of 149 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, more than 90 of them from Florida. (The others have flown from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California.) That total, which increases every other day or so, is a record; the previous high, set in 2024, was 132 Falcon 9 launches.<\/p>\n

SpaceX has also launched five suborbital test flights of its giant Starship<\/a> Mars rocket in 2025, all of them from its Starbase site in South Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 20,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":153612,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[2476,3109,3113,61,3107,60,43,3110,3108,3111,82,247,3112,268],"class_list":{"0":"post-153611","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-global-news","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-inkl","13":"tag-ireland","14":"tag-news","15":"tag-news-app","16":"tag-news-headlines","17":"tag-news-today","18":"tag-science","19":"tag-space","20":"tag-today-news","21":"tag-world-news"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153611","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=153611"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153611\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/153612"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=153611"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=153611"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=153611"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}