{"id":612260,"date":"2026-09-02T13:06:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:06:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612260\/"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:06:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:06:14","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-its-35th-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/612260\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites to orbit on its 35th flight"},"content":{"rendered":"

The Starlink missions keep on coming.<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Falcon 9<\/a> rocket launched 27 of the company’s internet satellites to orbit this morning (Sept. 2), lifting off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> at 4:42 a.m. EDT (0842 GMT; 1:42 a.m. local California time).<\/p>\n

It was the 35th flight for this Falcon 9’s first stage, which is known as Booster 1063. That’s just two shy of the SpaceX<\/a> reuse record, which was set by B1067 last week<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 2, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

And B1063 will almost certainly fly again: It came back to Earth<\/a> successfully today, landing in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You” about 8.5 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

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The rocket’s upper stage did its part as well, deploying the 27 Starlink<\/a> satellites into low Earth orbit<\/a> 62 minutes after launch. They’re joining the largest satellite constellation ever assembled, which currently consists of more than 11,000<\/a> active spacecraft.<\/p>\n

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Previous Booster 1063 launches<\/p>\n

This morning’s launch was the 102nd Falcon 9 flight of the year, 79 of which have been dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

SpaceX has launched four other times in 2026 as well, conducting two missions of its Falcon Heavy<\/a> rocket and two suborbital test flights of its Starship<\/a> megarocket, which remains in development. The second Falcon Heavy launch of the year occurred on Sunday<\/a> (Aug. 30); it sent up NASA’s next flagship observatory, the Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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