{"id":488662,"date":"2026-06-12T04:17:15","date_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:17:15","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488662\/"},"modified":"2026-06-12T04:17:15","modified_gmt":"2026-06-12T04:17:15","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/488662\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73633\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260611_Starlink_G17_44_liftoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"316\"  \/>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base to begin the Starlink 17-44 mission on June 11, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched its next Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Thursday morning, a day before the company\u2019s stock becomes publicly available on the Nasdaq.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-44 mission added another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation. There are more than 10,500 Starlink satellites currently in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 8:05:59 a.m. PDT (11:05:59 a.m. EDT \/ 1505:59 UTC). The rocket flew on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1071. This was its 34th flight after launching five times for the National Reconnaissance Office, five SpaceX rideshare missions, Germany\u2019s SARah-1, NASA\u2019s SWOT, CAS500-2 for South Korea and 20 previous Starlink delivery flights.<\/p>\n<p>The first stage booster launched on the SpaceX drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean about eight and half minutes after launch. This was the 202nd landing on this vessel and the 622nd booster landing for SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":488663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-488662","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\/488662","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=488662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/488662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/488663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=488662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=488662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=488662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}