{"id":666669,"date":"2026-10-27T09:08:15","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:08:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666669\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T09:08:15","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T09:08:15","slug":"west-coast-falcon-9-rocket-launches-27-starlink-satellites-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/666669\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20250401_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20250401_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/><\/a>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>Update Oct. 27, 4:15 a.m. EDT (0815 UTC): SpaceX landed its Falcon 9 booster.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will deploy another batch of Starlink satellites from a Falcon 9 rocket, which launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Starlink 15-16 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E happened at 12:25 a.m. PDT (3:25 a.m. EDT \/ 0825 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Falcon 9 first stage booster B1082 made its 26th flight on this mission and will head south-east from California\u2019s central coast as it targets an orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The booster, which entered service in January 2024, previously launched the USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145 and Transporter-18 missions, plus 21 batches of Starlink V2 mini satellites.<\/p>\n<p>B1082 landed on the drone ship \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019 station in Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour into flight, following a short circularization burn, the stack of 27 Starlink satellites will be released from the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":666670,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[61,60,82,247],"class_list":["post-666669","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\/666669","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=666669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/666669\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/666670"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=666669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=666669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=666669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}