{"id":264704,"date":"2026-01-26T12:55:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:55:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264704\/"},"modified":"2026-01-26T12:55:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T12:55:07","slug":"spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-into-polar-orbit-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/264704\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 25 starlink satellites into polar orbit &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SpaceX successfully launched 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning, continuing the expansion of its satellite broadband constellation. <\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t&#13;<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"606\">The mission, designated Starlink 17-20, deployed the satellites into a polar low Earth orbit, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2026\/01\/25\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-25-starlink-satellites-to-polar-low-earth-orbit\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"362\" data-end=\"606\">The Falcon 9 rocket followed a southerly trajectory after lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"608\" data-end=\"741\" data-is-last-node=\"\" data-is-only-node=\"\">Liftoff took place from Space Launch Complex 4 East at 9:30 a.m. Pacific Standard Time (12:30 p.m. Eastern Standard Time \/ 1730 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Orbital launch no. 19 of 2026 \ud83c\uddfa\ud83c\uddf8\ud83d\ude8025\u2b50\ufe0f\ud83d\udd17\ud83d\udef0\ufe0f<\/p>\n<p>Starlink 17-20 | SpaceX | January 25 | 1644 UTC<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SpaceX<\/a> successfully launched 25 v2.0 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starlink?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Starlink<\/a> Mini\ud83d\udef0\ufe0f on its Falcon 9\ud83d\ude80 to LEO (Low Earth Orbit) from <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SLDelta30?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@SLDelta30<\/a> SLC-4E, California. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/QDFPduMfJd\" rel=\"nofollow\">pic.twitter.com\/QDFPduMfJd<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 Space Intelligence (@SpaceIntel101) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceIntel101\/status\/2015520044696940811?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 25, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/spacex-conducts-sixth-starlink-launch-of-2026-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1097. This was its sixth flight after launching Sentinel-6B, the Twilight ride share and three batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1097 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 173rd landing on this vessel and the 563rd booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX successfully launched 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning, continuing the expansion of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":264705,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[811,84375,61,60,84376,82,247,2306,1390],"class_list":{"0":"post-264704","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-california","9":"tag-falcon-rocket","10":"tag-ie","11":"tag-ireland","12":"tag-satellite-launch","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-starlink"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264704","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=264704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/264704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/264705"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=264704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=264704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=264704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}