{"id":145782,"date":"2025-09-18T17:38:09","date_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:38:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145782\/"},"modified":"2025-09-18T17:38:09","modified_gmt":"2025-09-18T17:38:09","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-117th-falcon-9-flight-of-2025-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/145782\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites to orbit on 117th Falcon 9 flight of 2025 (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 18), sending them aloft from Florida’s Space Coast.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with the Starlink<\/a> craft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> today at 5:30 a.m. EDT (0930 GMT).<\/p>\n

About 8.5 minutes later, the rocket’s first stage came back to Earth<\/a> for a landing, touching down on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship “Just Read the Instructions,” which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 28 Starlink internet satellites from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 18, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

It was the seventh launch and landing for this particular booster, which carries the designation B1092. Its most recent flight before today sent the U.S. Space Force’s robotic X-37B space plane to orbit<\/a> on its latest mystery mission.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the 28 Starlink satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO). They’ll be deployed there about 64 minutes after liftoff, if all goes to plan.<\/p>\n

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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket deploys 28 Starlink internet satellites after launching from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Sept. 18, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Today’s launch was the 117th Falcon 9 flight of the year already. More than 70% of those missions have been dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

Starlink is by far the largest network of spacecraft ever assembled. It currently consists of nearly 8,400<\/a> active spacecraft, and it’s growing all the time.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launched 28 more of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 18), sending them aloft from Florida’s Space…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":145783,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-145782","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom","12":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145782","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=145782"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/145782\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/145783"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=145782"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=145782"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=145782"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}