{"id":231850,"date":"2026-01-14T01:25:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:25:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231850\/"},"modified":"2026-01-14T01:25:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-14T01:25:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-midweek-starlink-mission-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/231850\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch midweek Starlink mission on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-68392\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20250106_Starlink_6-71_prelaunch-678x382.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"382\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station ahead of the planned launch of the Starlink 6-71 mission. Image: Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX aims to launch a Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Wednesday afternoon, but faces difficult weather.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 6-98 mission will add another 29 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to the low Earth orbit constellation. This will be its fourth Starlink mission of 2026.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 is scheduled for 1:08 p.m. EST (1808 UTC). The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the Starlink 6-98 mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1085. This will be its 13th flight after flying missions, like Crew-9, Blue Ghost Mission 1 and Fram 2.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1085 will target a landing on the SpaceX drone ship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 139th landing on this vessel and the 559th booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":231851,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-231850","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\/231850","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=231850"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/231850\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/231851"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=231850"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=231850"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=231850"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}