{"id":468219,"date":"2026-05-30T20:28:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:28:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468219\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T20:28:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T20:28:08","slug":"spacex-launches-50th-starlink-mission-of-2026-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/468219\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 50th Starlink mission of 2026 \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73535\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260530_Starlink_17-41_liftoff_SpaceX-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\"  \/>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Station on the Starlink 17-41 mission on May 30, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>Update May 30, 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of 2026 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-41 mission added another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation. It consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 8:25 a.m. PDT (11:25 a.m. EDT \/ 1525 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1082. This was its 22nd flight after launching missions, like USSF-62, NROL-145, and OneWeb Launch 20.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1082 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 199th landing on this vessel and the 617th booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Station&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":468220,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-468219","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\/468219","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=468219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/468219\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/468220"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=468219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=468219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=468219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}