{"id":9807,"date":"2025-09-08T14:26:06","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:26:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9807\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T14:26:06","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T14:26:06","slug":"spacexs-saturday-smallsat-starlink-mission-17-9-launch-from-foggy-california-satnews","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/9807\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Saturday smallsat Starlink Mission 17-9 launch from foggy California \u2013 SatNews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"325\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2025-09-07-at-1.17.37-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59907\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"has-white-color has-vivid-red-background-color has-text-color has-background has-link-color wp-elements-b533c2e1253f0726cf441c26a95e8244\">On Saturday, September 6 at 11:06 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 24 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.starlink.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">Starlink<\/a> satellites to low-Earth orbit from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. Photos captured by Satnews.<\/p>\n<p>The flight expanded <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">SpaceX<\/a>\u2018s constellation to almost 9,000 units that comprise the network.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/Screen-Shot-2025-09-07-at-1.18.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-59908\" style=\"width:840px;height:auto\"  \/><\/p>\n<p>This was the 20th flight for the first stage booster supporting this mission, which previously launched SDA-0A, SARah-2, Transporter-11, and now 17 Starlink missions. Following stage separation, the first stage landed on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, which was stationed in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>There was the possibility that residents of Santa Barbara, San Luis Obispo, and Ventura counties may have heard one or more sonic booms during the launch, but what residents experienced depended on weather and other conditions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"On Saturday, September 6 at 11:06 a.m. PT, Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites to low-Earth orbit from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":9808,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[111,139,69,147,392],"class_list":["post-9807","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\/9807","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=9807"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9807\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9808"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}