{"id":20800,"date":"2025-09-13T22:25:05","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:25:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20800\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T22:25:05","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T22:25:05","slug":"spacexs-saturday-starlink-smallsats-launch-group-17-10-in-californias-dense-fog-satnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/20800\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Saturday Starlink smallsats launch Group 17-10 in California\u2019s dense fog \u2013 SatNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"588\" height=\"332\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2025-09-13-at-2.21.18-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60094\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-359927f9608d61882cb07ed5cbdd4c22\">On Saturday, September 13 at 10:55 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Starlink<\/a> smallsats to low-Earth orbit to add to the Starlink constellation from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos captured by Satnews.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 28th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched NROL-87, NROL-85, SARah-1, SWOT, Transporter-8, Transporter-9, Transporter-13, NROL-146, Bandwagon-2, NROL-153, NROL-192, and now 17 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which was stationed in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2025-09-13-at-1.46.25-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-60092\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>There was the possibility that residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may have heard <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/updates\/#starship-sonic-boom\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">one or more sonic booms<\/a> during the launch, but what residents experienced depended on weather and other conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, September 13 at 10:55 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink smallsats to low-Earth orbit to&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":20801,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-20800","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20800"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20800\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20800"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20800"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20800"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}