{"id":535845,"date":"2026-07-11T05:24:09","date_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:24:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535845\/"},"modified":"2026-07-11T05:24:09","modified_gmt":"2026-07-11T05:24:09","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-for-35th-time-hauls-starlink-satellites-to-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/535845\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches for 35th time, hauls Starlink satellites to orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX rocket just inched closer to the record books.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> vehicle lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California tonight (July 10) at 11:01 p.m. EDT (8:01 p.m. local time; 0301 GMT on July 11), carrying 29 of SpaceX’s Starlink<\/a> broadband satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

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It was the 35th flight for this rocket’s first stage, a booster designated B1071. The SpaceX<\/a> record is 36, set just a few days ago by B1067<\/a> on another Starlink mission.<\/p>\n

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Previous Booster B1071 launches<\/p>\n

And, there will likely be more flights for B1071 down the road. The booster came back to Earth<\/a> for a touchdown tonight as planned, landing in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX droneship “Of Course I Still Love You” about 8.5 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 29 Starlink satellites aloft. They’re scheduled to be deployed in LEO about 62 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

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A Falcon 9 first stage rests on a ship at sea shortly after launching 29 Starlink satellites from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on July 10, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The Starlink megaconstellation currently consists of more than 10,700 active satellites, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>. The network is growing all the time, however, and it could eventually get very large indeed; SpaceX recently applied for approval to operate 100,000 of the spacecraft<\/a> in LEO.<\/p>\n

Tonight’s launch was the 81st Falcon 9 mission of 2026. About 80% of them have been Starlink flights.<\/p>\n

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