{"id":293315,"date":"2026-02-16T00:40:15","date_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:40:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293315\/"},"modified":"2026-02-16T00:40:15","modified_gmt":"2026-02-16T00:40:15","slug":"spacex-launches-600th-falcon-9-rocket-to-date-with-starlink-flight-from-vandenberg-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/293315\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 600th Falcon 9 rocket to date with Starlink flight from Vandenberg \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"A long-exposure streak shot of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket soaring away from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-13 mission on Feb. 14, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n

Update Feb. 14, 10:45 p.m. EST (0345 UTC): SpaceX deployed the 24 Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n

SpaceX continued its busy weekend with the launch of its 600th Falcon 9 rocket to date. The milestone mission comes hours after its Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station as part of its 20th human spaceflight mission.<\/p>\n

The Starlink 17-13 mission launched Saturday evening from Vandenberg Space Force Base. It sent 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 5:59:59 p.m. PST (8:59:59 p.m. EST \/ 0159:59 UTC), at the end of the launch window. The rocket flew on a southerly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n

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SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1081. This was its 22nd flight after launching four missions for NASA (Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, and TRACERS) among others.<\/p>\n

More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1081 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 178th landing on this vessel and the 571st booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n

Earlier in the day, SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom arrived at the ISS at 3:15 p.m. EST (2015 UTC). The orbital arrival of three astronauts and one cosmonaut came roughly 34 hours after launching from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A long-exposure streak shot of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket soaring away from Space Launch Complex 4 East at…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293316,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-293315","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293315","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=293315"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293315\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293315"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293315"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293315"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}