{"id":176196,"date":"2025-12-05T08:21:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:21:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176196\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T08:21:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T08:21:08","slug":"spacex-successfully-launched-28-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176196\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX successfully launched 28 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251204-starlink-g11-25-os-56-streak.webp.webp\" alt=\"Falcon 9: A new leap to the stars from Vandenberg\" title=\"Another journey into space: Falcon 9 launched from SLC-4E\" width=\"\" height=\"\" fetchpriority=\"high\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tSpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg US Air Force Base. Source: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX conducted another Starlink satellite launch. On December 4, 2025, a Falcon 9 rocket launched 28 devices for global internet coverage from the Vandenberg US Space Force Base in California. The launch took place at 15:42 Eastern Time (20:42 GMT; 12:42 local time).<\/p>\n<p>What is known<\/p>\n<p>The first stage of the rocket successfully landed on the SpaceX drone ship named Of Course I Still Love You 8.5 minutes after liftoff. This was already the fourth flight of this booster with index B1097, which had previously been used for the Sentinel-6B mission launch and two previous Starlink batches.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket&#8217;s upper stage continued its flight to low Earth orbit, where satellite deployment is planned approximately an hour later. They will join the world&#8217;s largest orbital constellation\u2014about 9,000 active Starlink satellites. In total, SpaceX has already launched over 10,000 such devices over the past 6.5 years.<\/p>\n<p>This launch was the 156th for the Falcon 9 rocket in 2025, strengthening the company&#8217;s record for the number of launches in a year. More than 70% of Falcon 9 missions this year were for expanding the Starlink network.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1996711119751106782\/\" rel=\"nofollow\">SpaceX<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg US Air Force Base.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176197,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":{"0":"post-176196","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-ie","9":"tag-ireland","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176196","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=176196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176196\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}