{"id":170581,"date":"2025-12-02T06:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170581\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T06:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T06:47:20","slug":"spacex-blasts-off-into-december-with-early-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/170581\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX blasts off into December with early morning\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

An arc of golden light stretches from the horizon into a cloudy, indigo sky.<\/p>\n

SpaceX kicked off the first day of the last month of the year by lighting up Florida’s Space Coast with an early morning launch.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from NASA Kennedy Space Center’s Complex 39A at 2:44 a.m. EST (0744 GMT) on Monday (Dec. 1).<\/p>\n

About nine minutes later, the mission reached its preliminary orbit, setting up the Starlink satellites (Group 6-86)<\/a> to be deployed about an hour later.<\/p>\n

“Deployment of 29 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX noted on social media<\/a> at 3:50 a.m. EST (0850 GMT).<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center on Dec. 1, 2025, carrying 29 of the company’s Starlink satellites. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Previous Booster 1095 missions<\/p>\n

In the interim, the Falcon’s first stage booster (B1095) returned from its fourth flight to make a propulsive landing on the autonomous droneship “Just Read the Instructions” stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The 29 Starlink satellites add to SpaceX’s broadband internet network, which now has just over 9,100 operational units in low Earth orbit<\/a>, according to satellite tracker<\/a> Jonathan McDowell.<\/p>\n

Monday’s launch was SpaceX’s 153rd Falcon 9 flight of the year, of which 110 have carried Starlink satellites. In total, SpaceX<\/a> has dedicated 331 missions to date to populating its megaconstellation since 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An arc of golden light stretches from the horizon into a cloudy, indigo sky. SpaceX kicked off the…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":170582,"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-170581","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\/170581","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=170581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/170581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/170582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=170581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=170581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=170581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}