{"id":349778,"date":"2026-03-20T21:28:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:28:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/349778\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T21:28:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T21:28:10","slug":"spacex-to-launch-25-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/349778\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71082\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Falcon-9_sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>Update March 20, 1:13 p.m. EDT (1713 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch its 30th batch of Starlink satellites this year with a Friday afternoon launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 2:51:49 p.m. PDT (5:51:49 p.m. EDT \/ 2151:49 UTC). The rocket will fly on a southerly trajectory upon leaving the launch pad. The Starlink 17-15 mission is carrying 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1100. This will be its fourth launch after previously flying the NROL-105 mission and two batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1100 will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this will be the 185th landing on this vessel and the 589th booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":60151,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-349778","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\/349778","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=349778"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/349778\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60151"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=349778"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=349778"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=349778"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}