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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 29 Starlink satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Jan. 30, 2026. | Credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n
As has almost become the norm, SpaceX launched two more batches of Starlink satellites over the course of two days from dual coasts.<\/p>\n
Booster 1082 missions<\/p>\n
USSF-62<\/a> | OneWeb Launch 20<\/a> | NROL-145<\/a> | 15 Starlink missions<\/p>\n First up on Thursday (Jan. 29), a Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in southern California. The 12:53 p.m. EDT (1753 GMT or 9:53 a.m. PDT local time) launch successfully deployed 25 satellites (Group 17-19<\/a>) into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n Then today (Jan. 30), another Falcon 9 flew from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> in Florida. Taking flight at 2:22 a.m. EDT (0722 GMT), the rocket carried 29 more units (Group 6-101<\/a>) for the Starlink network.<\/p>\n Booster 1095 missions<\/p>\n Starlink Group 12-15<\/a> | Starlink Group 10-56 <\/a>| Starlink Group 10-52 <\/a>| Starlink Group 6-86<\/a><\/p>\n Thursday’s booster (B1082) completed its 19th flight by touching down on the droneship “Of Course I Still Love You<\/a>” in he Pacific Ocean. It was then the fifth flight for Booster 1095, which similarly landed in the Atlantic Ocean on “Just Read the Instructions.”<\/p>\n The Starlink<\/a> network provides broadband internet service to areas around the globe where others means of service is absent or spotty. The service also supports in-flight wifi on certain airlines and direct cell-to-satellite calls and texting on select carriers.<\/p>\n Thursday and Friday’s launches raised the total number of Starlink satellites in orbit over the 9,600 mark, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>. Friday’s launch was SpaceX<\/a>‘s 13th mission of the year and 596th Falcon 9 flight since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":272239,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247,21806,133106,133105,20117],"class_list":["post-272238","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space","tag-space-force","tag-spacex-falcon-9","tag-starlink-network","tag-starlink-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272238","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=272238"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/272238\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/272239"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=272238"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=272238"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=272238"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}