{"id":168902,"date":"2025-12-05T04:03:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:03:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168902\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T04:03:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T04:03:12","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandengerg-sfb-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/168902\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandengerg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the Starlink 11-25 mission on Dec. 4, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n

Update Dec. 4, 5:30 p.m. EST (2230 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n

SpaceX completed a lunchtime launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base Thursday afternoon.<\/p>\n

The Starlink 11-25 mission launched aboard a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East, delivering 28 more broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit. This was the fourth launch this month supporting the Starlink satellite constellation and the 114th such launch this year.<\/p>\n

SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from the California coastline at 12:42 p.m. PST (3:42 p.m. EST \/ 2042 UTC). The rocket flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon departure from the launch pad.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX launched the mission using its Falcon 9 booster with the tail number 1097. This was its fourth flight following the launches of the Sentinel-6B, Starlink 11-39 and Starlink 17-8.<\/p>\n

Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1097 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 marking the 167th touchdown on this vessel and the 544th booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n

Prior to the launch of the Starlink 11-25 mission, SpaceX launched 2,915 Starlink satellites across 113 missions in 2025. At least three more such missions are planned between Dec. 7 and Dec. 10.<\/p>\n

In the midst of these Starlink flights, SpaceX is also slated to launch the NROL-77 mission for the National Reconnaissance Office. This is a classified payload set to launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Dec. 9.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket blasts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":168903,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":{"0":"post-168902","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-il","9":"tag-israel","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168902","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=168902"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/168902\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/168903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=168902"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=168902"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=168902"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}