{"id":626965,"date":"2026-10-11T03:20:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:20:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626965\/"},"modified":"2026-10-11T03:20:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T03:20:10","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-launches-21-military-satellites-into-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/626965\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 21 military satellites into orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"SpaceX<\/p>\n

SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 21 military satellites into orbit<\/p>\n

SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Falcon 9 carrying the SDA\u2019s fourth Tranche 1 data transport mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. <\/p>\n

The launch was aimed at sending 21 military satellites to low-Earth orbit comprising the fourth orbital plane in the SDA\u2019s proliferated LEO architecture. <\/p>\n

Approximately six minutes after liftoff, the first-stage booster successfully landed at LZ-4, marking another seamless reusability milestone.<\/p>\n

The space vehicle launched will provide data transport as a part of the SDA\u2019s Proliferated Warfighter Space Architecture which is a mesh network of optically connected satellites in orbit. <\/p>\n

The network delivers global military tactical communications and missile warning, indication and tracking capabilities. <\/p>\n

This is the fourth of nine contracted Tranche 1 missions for the SDA flown by SpaceX on a Falcon 9 rocket. This mission marks the sixth launch for the first-stage booster, which previously supported NROL-179, SDA-T1TL-E, and three Starlink missions. <\/p>\n

The launch was originally targeted for October 5, the mission was scrubbed for additional vehicle system checks and range deconfliction before achieving a healthy status ahead of launch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 launches 21 military satellites into orbit SpaceX Falcon 9 successfully launched the Falcon 9 carrying…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":626966,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-626965","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\/626965","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=626965"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/626965\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/626966"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=626965"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=626965"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=626965"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}