{"id":64868,"date":"2025-10-08T06:00:08","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64868\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T06:00:08","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T06:00:08","slug":"spacex-launches-28-more-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/64868\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 more Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket &#8211; VIDEO"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/news\/spacex-to-launch-3rd-falcon-9-from-vandenberg-no-delay-from-cape-mission\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a>\u00a0successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday night, adding 28 more Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its expanding megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-17 mission flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg Space Force, <a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a> reports, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/10\/07\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-2\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">foreign media<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Base. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 8:54 p.m. PDT (11:54 p.m. EDT \/ 0354 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched this mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1071. This is the second-most flown booster, with this being its 29th flight.<\/p>\n<p>Its previous missions include NASA\u2019s SWOT, five missions for the National Reconnaissance Office and four ride share missions (three Transporter and one Bandwagon).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1071 performed an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 156th landing on this vessel and the 516th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/news.az\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">News.Az<\/a>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u00a0successfully launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Tuesday night, adding 28 more Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":64869,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[52573,111,139,69,47757,147,392,1503,1504],"class_list":{"0":"post-64868","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-falcon-rocket","9":"tag-new-zealand","10":"tag-newzealand","11":"tag-nz","12":"tag-satellite-launch","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-starlink"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64868","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=64868"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64868\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64869"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64868"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64868"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64868"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}