{"id":554873,"date":"2026-07-22T23:54:25","date_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:54:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554873\/"},"modified":"2026-07-22T23:54:25","modified_gmt":"2026-07-22T23:54:25","slug":"spacex-launches-starlink-mission-from-california-a-day-after-last-second-abort-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/554873\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Starlink mission from California a day after last-second abort \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-Starlink-17-39-launch.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/07\/20260721-Starlink-17-39-launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73965\"  \/><\/a>The Starlink 17-39 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 21, 2026. Image: SapceX.<\/p>\n<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched two dozen Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites to its massive low Earth orbit constellation on Tuesday, a day after liftoff was scrubbed by a rare abort during engine ignition.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California came at 7:49 a.m. PDT (10:49 a.m. EDT \/ 1449 UTC). The first launch attempt for the Starlink 17-39 mission ended as the countdown clock hit zero when an issue popped up during the ignition sequence. All nine Merlin 1D engines appeared to ignite but then shutdown in a flash of fire and smoke.<\/p>\n<p>But on Tuesday, all appeared to go smoothly, with the rocket lifting off from Space Launch Complex 4 East under mostly clear skies, taking a south-southwesterly trajectory to reach a 97-degree inclination orbit. Deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites came just over an hour into flight.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>The mission used Falcon 9 first stage booster B1082, making its 23rd flight after launching missions, including NROL-145, USSF-62, and OneWeb Launch 20.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1082 landed on the droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019, which is positioned in the Pacific Ocean, the 212th landing on this vessel and the 640th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-39 mission was the company\u2019s 85 Falcon 9 rocket launch of the year. Of those, 67 were in support of the Starlink constellation, which consists of more than 10,800 spacecraft.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Starlink 17-39 mission lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":554874,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-554873","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\/554873","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=554873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/554873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/554874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=554873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=554873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=554873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}