{"id":451660,"date":"2026-03-01T08:18:16","date_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:18:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451660\/"},"modified":"2026-03-01T08:18:16","modified_gmt":"2026-03-01T08:18:16","slug":"starlink-deploys-500th-satellite-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/451660\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink deploys 500th satellite of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched its 500th Starlink satellite of the year during a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on February 25th. The Falcon 9 rocket carried 25 Starlink Version 2 \u2018Mini\u2019 satellites, and later confirmed the successful touch-down of the booster stage.<\/p>\n<p>The number of active Starlink satellites in orbit now exceeds 10,000.<\/p>\n<p>The launch used a booster which was flown for the eleventh time. The booster landed on the floating barge \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019 and this was the 180th landing on this vessel and the 577th booster landing for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>This Starlink 17-26 mission added 25 broadband satellites to the growing constellation that\u2019s nearing 10,000 spacecraft in low Earth orbit. SpaceX confirmed a successful payload deployment an hour after liftoff. With this launch, SpaceX has flown 512 Starlink satellites to orbit in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launched its 500th Starlink satellite of the year during a flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":451661,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-451660","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451660","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=451660"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/451660\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/451661"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=451660"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=451660"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=451660"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}