{"id":642523,"date":"2026-10-27T06:06:10","date_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642523\/"},"modified":"2026-10-27T06:06:10","modified_gmt":"2026-10-27T06:06:10","slug":"west-coast-falcon-9-rocket-to-launch-27-starlink-satellites-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/642523\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast Falcon 9 rocket to launch 27 Starlink satellites \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20250401_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset.jpg\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69186\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/20250401_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/><\/a>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>Update Oct. 27, 12:21 a.m. EDT (0421 UTC): SpaceX pushed back the T-0 liftoff time.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will deploy another batch of Starlink satellites from a Falcon 9 rocket, set to liftoff from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California early Tuesday morning.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Starlink 15-16 mission from Space Launch Complex 4E is currently scheduled for 12:25 a.m. PDT (3:25 a.m. EDT \/ 0825 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage starting about 30 minutes ahead to launch.<\/p>\n<p>Falcon 9 first stage booster B1082 is making its 26th flight on this mission and will head south-east from California\u2019s central coast as it targets an orbit inclined 70 degrees to the equator.<\/p>\n<p>The booster, which entered service in January 2024, previously launched the USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, NROL-145 and Transporter-18 missions, plus 21 batches of Starlink V2 mini satellites.<\/p>\n<p>B1082 will make a landing on the drone ship \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019 station in Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja California, Mexico.<\/p>\n<p>About an hour into flight, following a short circularization burn, the stack of 27 Starlink satellites will be released from the Falcon 9\u2019s second stage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in the launch position during sunset at Space Launch Complex 4&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":642524,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-642523","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\/642523","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=642523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/642523\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/642524"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=642523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=642523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=642523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}