{"id":247628,"date":"2026-01-23T09:43:16","date_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:43:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247628\/"},"modified":"2026-01-23T09:43:16","modified_gmt":"2026-01-23T09:43:16","slug":"spacex-conducts-sixth-starlink-launch-of-2026-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/247628\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX conducts sixth Starlink launch of 2026 &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> SpaceX has launched its first West Coast Starlink mission of 2026, deploying satellites into a polar low Earth orbit. <\/p>\n<p data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"476\">The Starlink 17-30 mission added 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to the company\u2019s growing megaconstellation, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2026\/01\/21\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-first-west-coast-starlink-mission-of-2026\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"302\" data-end=\"476\">This marks SpaceX\u2019s sixth Starlink launch of the year.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"478\" data-end=\"691\">Liftoff took place from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:47:29 p.m. PST (12:47:29 a.m. EST \/ 05:47:29 UTC). The rocket followed a southerly trajectory after leaving the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>&#13;<\/p>\n<p lang=\"en\" dir=\"ltr\">Watch Falcon 9 launch 25 <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/Starlink?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">@Starlink<\/a> satellites to orbit from California <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/5Ld9qG3Mhh\" rel=\"nofollow\">https:\/\/t.co\/5Ld9qG3Mhh<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&#13;<br \/>\n\u2014 SpaceX (@SpaceX) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2014211848766103888?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">January 22, 2026<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/how-and-why-spacex-launched-its-first-national-security-mission-of-2026\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1093. This was its 10th flight after launching two flights for the Space Development Agency and seven previous batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1093 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 172nd landing on this vessel and the 562nd orbital booster landing for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t<script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX has launched its first West Coast Starlink mission of 2026, deploying satellites into a polar low Earth&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":247629,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,4029,47757,147,392,1503,1504,144462],"class_list":["post-247628","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-satellite","tag-satellite-launch","tag-science","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-mission"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247628","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=247628"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/247628\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/247629"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=247628"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=247628"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=247628"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}