{"id":211226,"date":"2026-03-09T05:24:12","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:24:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211226\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:24:12","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:24:12","slug":"spacex-springs-forward-with-another-starlink-launch-from-california-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211226\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX springs forward with another Starlink launch from California (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n

Hours after setting clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time, SpaceX went forward with a launch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (March 8).<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off at 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 GMT or 4:00 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California. About an our later, SpaceX confirmed<\/a> the successful deployment of all 25 broadband internet relay satellites (Group 17-18<\/a>) into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

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The Falcon’s first stage, Booster 1097, completed its seventh spaceflight with a landing on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which was stationed in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

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A time lapse photograph captures the streak of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as it launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, March 8, 2026. | Credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n

Previous Booster 1097 missions<\/p>\n

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The launch increased the total number of active Starlink satellites to 9,915, according to satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mission was SpaceX’s 29th of the year and 639th in its history.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. Credit:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":211227,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,97096,18174,48245,97095,44695],"class_list":["post-211226","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink-satellites","tag-the-falcon","tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211226","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211226"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211226\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/211227"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211226"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211226"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211226"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}