{"id":35245,"date":"2025-11-06T02:47:20","date_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:47:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35245\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T02:47:20","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T02:47:20","slug":"spacex-launches-more-starlink-satellites-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/35245\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches more Starlink satellites from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. &#8211; SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 launched 29 more Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">This mission was the fifth flight for the first-stage booster supporting this mission, SpaceX said on its website.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">What we know:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The satellites were to be deployed just over an hour into the mission.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The launch took place around 8:24 p.m., from Central Florida&#8217;s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> Who is SpaceX?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p original-article-post=\"\" origination_station=\"WOFL\" data-v-ec26887a=\"\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The backstory:<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">SpaceX, founded by billionaire Elon Musk, started in 2002 to create powerful, fully reusable launch vehicles. SpaceX rockets can withstand reentry and land back on Earth to re-fly again.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">They hope to become capable of carrying humans to Mars and other destinations in the solar system. In 2020, SpaceX was the first private company to transport people to the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/international-space-station\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">International Space Station<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">The company has completed 565 missions, 525 landings and 490 relights, its website said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p> <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/screenshot-2025-10-29-123833.png\" alt=\"\" data-v-0dea8073=\"\"\/> <\/p>\n<p data-v-0dea8073=\"\">SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 launched 29 Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit today at 12:35 p.m., from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p>  What is Starlink?\u00a0 <\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">With a goal of providing high-speed Internet around the world, Starlink aims to provide connectivity for streaming, video calls, gaming and remote working anywhere in the world \u2013 including remote locations.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">Residential services start at $59 a month, until Oct. 29 and then return to a base price of $80 a month, Starlink&#8217;s website said. Now, over 7 million people across 150 countries, territories and markets are connected with Starlink, a SpaceX post said.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p data-v-6fc2855c=\"\">According to Space.com, SpaceX currently has 8,475 Starlink satellites in orbit \u2013 with a goal of having a total of 42,000 in orbit. Each satellite has a lifespan of five years.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p class=\"group-source-paragraph\" data-v-4fbf7207=\"\">The Source: Information in this story was sourced by SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>    <a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/organizations\/spacex\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/www.fox35orlando.com\/tag\/us\/fl\/brevard-county\" class=\"tags-tag\" data-v-6fc2855c=\"\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brevard County News<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION, Fla. &#8211; SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 launched 29 more Starlink satellites into low-Earth orbit&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":35246,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[315,47,115,9421,139,141,140,1435,628],"class_list":{"0":"post-35245","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-orlando","8":"tag-brevard-county","9":"tag-fl","10":"tag-news","11":"tag-organizations","12":"tag-orlando","13":"tag-orlando-headlines","14":"tag-orlando-news","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-us"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245","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=35245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/35246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}