{"id":462393,"date":"2026-06-05T13:05:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:05:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/462393\/"},"modified":"2026-06-05T13:05:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-05T13:05:09","slug":"spacex-launches-29-new-satellites-to-boost-its-global-network","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/462393\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 29 new satellites to boost its global network"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Washington: SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into space as part of its ongoing efforts to expand its satellite internet network worldwide.<\/p>\n<p>The company stated in a press release that the Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral, the US Space Force&#8217;s launch site in Florida, after a brief delay due to thunderstorms.<\/p>\n<p>The company noted that the rocket successfully completed its twelfth flight and landed accurately on the USS Shortfall of Gravitas, a US Navy drone ship, in the Atlantic Ocean after completing its mission.<\/p>\n<p>This mission, the company&#8217;s 64th this year, is part of SpaceX&#8217;s plans to expand its Starlink network in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>This launch came less than 19 hours after a previous mission from the US West Coast, which deployed an additional 24 Starlink satellites using another Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>This launch is part of SpaceX&#8217;s ongoing plan to expand its satellite internet network, which currently comprises more than 10,000 satellites in orbit<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Washington: SpaceX launched 29 Starlink satellites into space as part of its ongoing efforts to expand its satellite&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":462394,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,7917,147,392,33763],"class_list":["post-462393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-qatar","tag-science","tag-space","tag-the-peninsula"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462393","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=462393"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/462393\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/462394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=462393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=462393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=462393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}