{"id":253829,"date":"2025-11-09T22:20:07","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:20:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253829\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T22:20:07","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T22:20:07","slug":"spacex-launches-29-satellites-after-fireball-spotted-in-the-sky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/253829\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 29 satellites after fireball spotted in the sky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nov. 9 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SpaceX\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> launched 29 more of its Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Sunday, a day after a fireball was spotted in the sky off the coast of Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The company said Sunday that the satellites were launched at 3:10 a.m. local time by a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 39A at NASA&#8217;s Kennedy Space Center.\n<\/p>\n<p>After the launch, the first-stage booster landed on a barge called A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The launch marked the 28th flight for the first-stage booster, which previously launched CRS-24, Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19, and now 24 Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p>It came after a fireball <a href=\"https:\/\/www.floridatoday.com\/story\/news\/2025\/11\/08\/fireball-florida-sky-canaveral-spacex-rocket-launch-nasa\/87166865007\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">was spotted<\/a> around 6:18 a.m. Saturday morning by Florida Today and <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceflightNow\/status\/1987125040324714934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">Spaceflight Now contributor John Pisani<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceflightNow\/status\/1987125040324714934\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">as<\/a> as a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket was preparing to make a launch attempt at the site.<\/p>\n<p>According to Spaceflight Now, the fireball appeared to be a satellite reentry and experts <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/Marco_Langbroek\/status\/1987149331443380635\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">online speculated<\/a> that it was likely a Chinese CZ-3B upper stage.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket launch Saturday was scrubbed due to weather conditions, and it was the rocket launched Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>It marked SpaceX&#8217;s 93rd rocket launch from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast this year, tying the region&#8217;s record for most launches in a year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Nov. 9 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched 29 more of its Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Sunday, a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":253830,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,412,56,54,55],"class_list":{"0":"post-253829","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-spacex","11":"tag-uk","12":"tag-united-kingdom","13":"tag-unitedkingdom"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829","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=253829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/253829\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/253830"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=253829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=253829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=253829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}