{"id":279364,"date":"2026-05-21T11:41:10","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:41:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279364\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T11:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T11:41:10","slug":"spacex-launches-another-batch-of-starlink-satellites-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/279364\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; SpaceX has launched another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station just after 6 a.m., sending 29 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This marked the 28th flight for the first stage booster, which previously supported 20 Starlink missions and NASA&#8217;s Crew-5 launch.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">Following first stage separation, the booster landed on the droneship &#8220;A Shortfall of Gravitas,&#8221; which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/fox-local\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">CLICK TO DOWNLOAD THE FOX LOCAL APP<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Watch the launch  <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/jpkiiluhnh3rpl8u.jpg\" alt=\"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida's Space Coast\" class=\"sr-only\" data-v-4292be72=\"\"\/>   <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/newsletters\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SIGN-UP FOR FOX 35&#8217;S BREAKING NEWS, DAILY NEWS NEWSLETTERS<\/a><\/p>\n<p> Starlink missions <\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">This new batch of satellites will join thousands of other satellites that have already been sent to space, expanding Starlink&#8217;s growing constellation.<\/p>\n<p data-v-94395e58=\"\">The network provides broadband service to users in more than 150 countries, mostly serving remote and underserved areas.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: This story was written with information released by SpaceX.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/organizations\/spacex\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/science\/air-space\/space\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/series\/instastories\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Instastories<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-94395e58=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Florida News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. &#8211; SpaceX has launched another batch of Starlink satellites from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast on Thursday.&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":279365,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[29273,47,28,30,29,406,115,9421,554,405,1769,1435,628],"class_list":["post-279364","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-air-space","tag-fl","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-instastories","tag-news","tag-organizations","tag-science","tag-series","tag-space","tag-spacex","tag-us"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279364","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279364"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279364\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/279365"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279364"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279364"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279364"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}