{"id":226610,"date":"2026-01-10T10:48:07","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:48:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226610\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T10:48:07","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T10:48:07","slug":"29-starlink-satellites-deployed-in-years-third-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/226610\/","title":{"rendered":"29 Starlink satellites deployed in year\u2019s third flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/1387902_023936_updates.jpg\"   width=\"1200\" height=\"686\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" fetchpriority=\"high\" alt=\"SpaceX mission 2026: 29 Starlink satellites deployed in year\u2019s third flight\"\/>SpaceX mission 2026: 29 Starlink satellites deployed in year\u2019s third flight<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX successfully completed its third mission of 2026 on Friday, launching a batch of 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit. This mission continues SpaceX\u2019s aggressive launch cadence; the Falcon9 rocket, topped with the Starlink internet satellites, lifted off from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Friday (Jan.9) at 4:41 p.m. EST (2141 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The rocket\u2019s first stage landed in the Atlantic Ocean about 8.5 minutes after liftoff. It was the 29th launch and landing for this particular booster.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage deployed the 29 satellites into low Earth orbit on schedule, approximately 65 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink is one of the largest constellations, consisting of more than 9,400 active spacecraft , and that number is growing all the time.<\/p>\n<p>The Friday\u2019s launch was SpaceX&#8217;s third of 2026, the company launched 165 orbital missions, nearly three-quarters of which were dedicated Starlink flights. <\/p>\n<p>The recent achievement marks a high-speed start to the year while solidifying its position in orbital launches and its utmost commitment to rapid reusability.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX mission 2026: 29 Starlink satellites deployed in year\u2019s third flight SpaceX successfully completed its third mission of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":226611,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-226610","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\/226610","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=226610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/226610\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/226611"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=226610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=226610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=226610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}