{"id":288203,"date":"2026-05-28T22:58:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288203\/"},"modified":"2026-05-28T22:58:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-28T22:58:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-starlink-mission-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/288203\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch Starlink mission from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\tSpaceX on Friday will attempt to launch a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:03 a.m., according to SpaceX. Twenty-nine Starlink internet satellites will take the trip to low-Earth orbit in what will be the 16th flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission, SpaceX&#8217;s website states.  The booster was previously used in Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, SXM-10, MTG-S1, EchoStar XXV, and eight Starlink missions, according to SpaceX. After stage separation, the booster will attempt to land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch later the same day from the Space Coast.&gt;&gt;WESH 2 will stream the launch live at the top of this story.\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\tBREVARD COUNTY, Fla. \u2014 \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX on Friday will attempt to launch a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. <\/p>\n<p>A Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to take off from Space Launch Complex 40 at 8:03 a.m., according to SpaceX. <\/p>\n<p>Twenty-nine Starlink internet satellites will take the trip to low-Earth orbit in what will be the 16th flight for the first-stage booster supporting the mission, SpaceX&#8217;s website states.  <\/p>\n<p>The booster was previously used in Crew-9, RRT-1, Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, Fram2, SXM-10, MTG-S1, EchoStar XXV, and eight Starlink missions, according to SpaceX. After stage separation, the booster will attempt to land on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean. <\/p>\n<p>A United Launch Alliance Atlas V rocket is scheduled to launch later the same day from the Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p>&gt;&gt;WESH 2 will stream the launch live at the top of this story.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX on Friday will attempt to launch a Starlink mission from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. A Falcon&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":288204,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[83992,121993,121992,121988,38774,28,30,29,121991,83993,121989,121990,1435,82733,121986,121987,121994],"class_list":["post-288203","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-florida","tag-a-shortfall","tag-crew-9","tag-echostar-xxv","tag-firefly-blue-ghost-mission","tag-first-stage-booster","tag-florida","tag-florida-headlines","tag-florida-news","tag-fram2","tag-gravitas-droneship","tag-mtg-s1","tag-rrt-1","tag-spacex","tag-stage-separation","tag-starlink-mission","tag-sxm-10","tag-website-state"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288203","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=288203"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/288203\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/288204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=288203"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=288203"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=288203"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}