{"id":97525,"date":"2025-10-22T18:13:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:13:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97525\/"},"modified":"2025-10-22T18:13:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-22T18:13:07","slug":"spacex-plans-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-its-550th-falcon-9-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/97525\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX plans to launch 28 Starlink satellites on its 550th Falcon 9 mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SpaceX is set to launch its 550th Falcon 9 mission since the rocket&#8217;s debut in 2010. The upcoming launch from California will deploy 28 additional broadband internet satellites into the company&#8217;s Starlink constellation. <\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base is scheduled for 7:16 a.m. PDT (10:16 a.m. EDT \/ 1416 UTC), <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports citing<a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/10\/22\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-550th-falcon-9-rocket\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> foreign media.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/spacex-successfully-launches-11th-test-flight-of-starship-megarocket-video\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1075. This will be its 21st flight following the launches of missions like Transporter-11, SARah-2 and SDA-0A.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after launch, B1075 will target an autonomous landing on the SpaceX drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this will be the 159th landing on this vessel and the 522nd booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>The 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites will be deployed from the Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s second stage about an hour after liftoff. The company recently launched its 10,000th Starlink satellite of those more than 8,600 are still in low Earth orbit. The Starlink 11-5 mission will be the 95th mission in 2025 supporting the low Earth orbit internet constellation.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX is set to launch its 550th Falcon 9 mission since the rocket&#8217;s debut in 2010. The upcoming&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":97526,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[9327,60868,61,60,60867,82,247,2306,1390],"class_list":["post-97525","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-falcon-9","tag-falcon-9-mission","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-satelittes","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97525","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=97525"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/97525\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/97526"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=97525"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=97525"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=97525"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}