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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 of the company’s Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on July 31, 2026. | Credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n
SpaceX has sent yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites into orbit.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 24 of the broadband spacecraft lifted off from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> on Friday (July 31) at 11:08 p.m. EDT (8:08 p.m. local time; 0308 GMT on Aug. 1).<\/p>\n The rocket’s first stage came back to Earth<\/a> as planned 8.5 minutes later, touching down in the Pacific Ocean atop the SpaceX<\/a> droneship “Of Course I Still Love You.” It was the 26th mission for this particular booster, which is designated B1081.<\/p>\n Previous Booster B1081 launches<\/p>\n Crew-7<\/a> | CRS-29<\/a> | PACE<\/a> | Transporter-10<\/a> | EarthCARE<\/a> | NROL-186<\/a> | Transporter-13<\/a> | TRACERS<\/a> | NROL-48<\/a> | COSMO-SkyMed Second Generation FM3<\/a> | 15 Starlink missions<\/p>\n The 24 Starlink satellites were deployed into low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO) 61.5 minutes after liftoff as planned, SpaceX confirmed via X<\/a>.<\/p>\n They’re joining more than 10,800<\/a> other spacecraft in the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the largest satellite network ever assembled.<\/p>\n A batch of SpaceX’s Starlink satellites is seen high above Earth before deployment from their Falcon 9 rocket on July 31, 2026. | Credit: SpaceX<\/p>\n SpaceX has now launched 89 Falcon 9 missions in 2026, 69 of which have been dedicated Starlink flights.<\/p>\n The company also has three other liftoffs under its belt this year \u2014 one launch of its powerful Falcon Heavy<\/a> vehicle and two test flights of Starship<\/a>, the fully reusable megarocket SpaceX is developing to help humanity settle the moon and Mars, among other tasks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"When you buy through links on our articles, Future and its syndication partners may earn a commission. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":420795,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[7,9,8,101795,66999,78219,44695],"class_list":["post-420794","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-california","tag-california","tag-california-headlines","tag-california-news","tag-low-earth-orbit","tag-spacex-falcon-9","tag-starlink","tag-vandenberg-space-force-base"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420794","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=420794"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/420794\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/420795"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=420794"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=420794"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=420794"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"a](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/https:\/\/media.zenfs.com\/en\/space_311\/141be1ff329cdedd5c449d76a789cff1.jpeg\"\/)
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