{"id":360291,"date":"2026-03-27T03:15:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:15:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/360291\/"},"modified":"2026-03-27T03:15:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-27T03:15:08","slug":"spacex-launches-batch-of-starlink-satellites-from-the-west-coast-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/360291\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches batch of Starlink satellites from the West Coast \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260326-Starlink-17-17-Launch.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260326-Starlink-17-17-Launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73044\"  \/><\/a>The Starlink 17-17 mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 26, 2026. Image: SpaceX.<br \/>SpaceX launched another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet service Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Starlink 17-17 mission occurred at 4:03:19 p.m. PDT (7:03:19 p.m. EDT \/ 230319: UTC). The mission was originally scheduled for March 24 but was delayed two days for unknown reasons, presumably payload or vehicle issues.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9, with 25 Starlink satellites inside its payload fairing, took a southerly trajectory on departure from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base, in California.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage booster for this mission, serial number B1081 was making its 23rd flight. It entered service on the East Coast with the launch of the Crew 7 space station mission in August 2023. It went on to fly the CRS-29, PACE, Transporter-10, EarthCARE, NROL-186, Transporter-13, TRACERS, NROL-48 and COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM3 missions, plus 12 previous Starlink deliveries.<\/p>\n<p>About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1081 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 marking the 186th touchdown on this vessel and the 591st booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n<p>The stack of Starlink satellites were deployed from the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage just over an hour into flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Starlink 17-17 mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on March 26, 2026. Image:&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-360291","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\/360291","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=360291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}