{"id":510173,"date":"2026-06-25T09:15:19","date_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:15:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510173\/"},"modified":"2026-06-25T09:15:19","modified_gmt":"2026-06-25T09:15:19","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-from-california-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/510173\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites from California’s central coast on Wednesday night (June 24).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> on Wednesday at 11:30 p.m. EDT (8:30 p.m. local time; 0330 GMT on June 25), carrying 24 of the broadband spacecraft to low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s first stage came back to Earth about 8.5 minutes after launch as planned, touching down in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Still Love You<\/a>.”<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on June 24, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

According to a company mission description<\/a>, it was the 25th flight for this particular booster, which is known as B1081.<\/p>\n

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The rocket’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the 24 satellites to LEO. The spacecraft were deployed there on schedule, just under 62 minutes into flight, according to SpaceX<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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Previous Booster 1081 missions<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s launch was the 74th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year, and the 59th of 2026 devoted to building out the Starlink<\/a> megaconstellation. Starlink is by far the biggest satellite network ever assembled; it currently consists of nearly 10,700 active units, and the number goes up all the time.<\/p>\n

SpaceX has launched two non-Falcon 9 missions this year as well. On April 29, a Falcon Heavy lofted<\/a> the Viasat-3 F3 telecom satellite. And the company’s Starship<\/a> megarocket launched on its 12th-ever test flight<\/a> on May 22.<\/p>\n

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Editor’s note: This story was updated at 2:40 a.m. ET on June 25 with news of successful launch, rocket landing and satellite deployment.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink satellites from California’s central coast on Wednesday night (June 24). A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":510174,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-510173","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\/510173","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=510173"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/510173\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/510174"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=510173"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=510173"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=510173"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}