{"id":590163,"date":"2026-08-11T17:54:15","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:54:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590163\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T17:54:15","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T17:54:15","slug":"spacex-launches-29-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-from-florida-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/590163\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites to orbit from Florida (photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off from Florida’s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> today at 11:58 a.m. EDT (1558 GMT), carrying 29 of the broadband spacecraft toward low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket’s first stage made a pinpoint landing in the Atlantic Ocean atop the SpaceX<\/a> droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas.” It was the 18th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1085.<\/p>\n

\n

\"A\n<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s first stage is seen just after its drone-ship landing on Aug. 11, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Though more than half its liftoffs have been Starlink flights, B1085 also has some astronaut missions under its belt. The booster lofted SpaceX’s Crew-9<\/a> flight to the International Space Station<\/a> in September 2024, and it launched the Fram2 mission<\/a> around Earth’s poles six months later.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 29 Starlink satellites to LEO today. They’ll be deployed there 64 minutes after liftoff, if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n

You may like<\/p>\n

Previous Booster B1085 launches<\/p>\n

Today’s liftoff was the 93rd Falcon 9 launch of the year already. Seventy-two of those missions have been devoted to building out Starlink, the largest satellite constellation ever assembled.<\/p>\n

Starlink currently consists of more than 10,900 active satellites<\/a>, according to astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell. But SpaceX has even bigger megaconstellations in mind: Eventually, the company wants to operate 100,000<\/a> of its bigger, more capable Starlink V3 satellites, and Elon Musk<\/a> has stated an ambition to launch a million AI data center satellites<\/a> to Earth orbit as well.<\/p>\n

\"Space\"<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites skyward today (Aug. 11). A Falcon 9 rocket…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":590164,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-590163","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590163","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=590163"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/590163\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/590164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=590163"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=590163"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=590163"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}