{"id":612194,"date":"2026-05-30T14:55:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:55:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/612194\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T14:55:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:55:10","slug":"live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-50th-starlink-mission-of-2026-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/612194\/","title":{"rendered":"Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 50th Starlink mission of 2026 \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250818_Starlink_G17_5_Vertical.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/>File \u2013 SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 17-5 mission on Aug. 18, 2025. This was the ninth flight for Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1088. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing to launch its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of 2026 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-41 mission will add another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation. It consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 8:25 a.m. PDT (11:25 a.m. EDT \/ 1525 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1082. This is its 22nd flight after launching missions, like USSF-62, NROL-145, and OneWeb Launch 20.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1082 will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 199th landing on this vessel and the 617th booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File \u2013 SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":224496,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[90,416,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-612194","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\/612194","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=612194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/612194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/224496"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=612194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=612194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=612194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}