{"id":108681,"date":"2025-10-31T22:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/108681\/"},"modified":"2025-10-31T22:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-31T22:32:08","slug":"spacex-launches-100th-successful-starlink-mission-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/108681\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 100th successful Starlink mission of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"

Oct. 31 (UPI) — A SpaceX<\/a> Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 28 Starlink satellites into space before decoupling and returning to Earth following a successful launch on Friday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The launch occurred at 1:41 p.m. PDT from the Vandenberg Space Force Base in California, and the Falcon 9 booster rocket successfully landed on the deck of the drone<\/a> ship named Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean.\n<\/p>\n

The mission was the 100th Starlink launch in 2025 and was the 139th Falcon 9 mission this year, according to Space.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The launch also was the 29th for the Falcon 9 booster rocket with tail number B1063 and is two short of the most for any Falcon 9 booster rocket, which is 31 launches, Spaceflight Now<\/a> reported.<\/p>\n

The booster rocket is the oldest still used by SpaceX and made its first launch on Nov. 21, 2020.<\/p>\n

The successful landing was the 162nd for the drone ship and the 527th in total for SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Friday’s mission originally was scheduled a day earlier, but was delayed due to technical difficulties.<\/p>\n

The Starlink mini satellites were deployed in low Earth orbit about an hour after the launch to become part of the mega-constellation of Starlink satellites that provide wireless communications anywhere in the world.\n<\/p>\n

The world has more than 8,800 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, and SpaceX has deployed more than 2,500 of them so far in 2025.<\/p>\n

Eight more missions are scheduled before Thanksgiving that would deploy another 228 satellites to the mega-constellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 31 (UPI) — A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carried a payload of 28 Starlink satellites into space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":108682,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[114,22892,85,46,141,145,4688,125],"class_list":["post-108681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-science","tag-business","tag-drones","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=108681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/108681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/108682"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=108681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=108681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=108681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}