{"id":582232,"date":"2026-08-12T07:46:21","date_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:46:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582232\/"},"modified":"2026-08-12T07:46:21","modified_gmt":"2026-08-12T07:46:21","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/582232\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Starlink-17-49-LA.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/Starlink-17-49-LA.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"418\" class=\"size-full wp-image-74149\"  \/><\/a>A Falcon 9 booster streaks through the night sky as it launches on the Starlink 17-49 mission on August 12, 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Update 11:19 p.m. EDT (0319 UTC): SpaceX updated the new T-0.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched two dozen of its Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-49 mission was SpaceX\u2019s 51st flight from the West Coast so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 9:46 p.m. PDT (12:46 a.m. EDT \/ 0446 UTC). The rocket took a south-southwesterly trajectory.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1103. This was its fifth flight after previously launching SDA-T1TL-E, NROL-179, Starlink 17-35, and Starlink 17-42.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1103 landed on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. It was the 163rd landing on this vessel and the 648th Falcon booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A Falcon 9 booster streaks through the night sky as it launches on the Starlink 17-49 mission on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":582233,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[85,46,141,145],"class_list":["post-582232","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\/582232","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=582232"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/582232\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/582233"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=582232"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=582232"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=582232"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}