{"id":176622,"date":"2025-12-05T13:45:14","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:45:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176622\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T13:45:14","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T13:45:14","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/176622\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit from\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from California\u2019s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 4, 2025.<\/p>\n

SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit on Thursday (Dec. 4), sending 28 of them up from California’s central coast.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with 28 Starlink<\/a> spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> Thursday at 3:42 p.m. EST (2042 GMT; 12:42 p.m. local California time).<\/p>\n

The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth 8.5 minutes later, landing in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You.” It was the fourth flight for this particular booster, which is designated 1097.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s first stage landed safely on a ship at sea on Dec. 4, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Previous Booster 1097 missions<\/p>\n

Sentinel-6B<\/a> | 2 Starlink flights<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage continued carrying the 28 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a>, where they will be deployed about an hour after liftoff, if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n

They’ll join a megaconstellation that’s by far the largest ever assembled. SpaceX currently operates more than 9,000 Starlink satellites<\/a> and has launched more than 10,000 of them over the past 6.5 years.<\/p>\n

Today’s launch was the 156th Falcon 9 liftoff of 2025, extending SpaceX’s single-year record. More than 70% of them have been Starlink missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink satellites from California\u2019s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 4,…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":176623,"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-176622","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\/176622","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=176622"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/176622\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/176623"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=176622"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=176622"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=176622"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}