{"id":128504,"date":"2025-09-03T01:00:14","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:00:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128504\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T01:00:14","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T01:00:14","slug":"spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-wednesday-sunrise-falcon-9-flight-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/128504\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Wednesday sunrise Falcon 9 flight \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68714\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250211_Starlink_12-18_prelaunch.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"480\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of the Starlink 12-18 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX\u2019s next Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida\u2019s Space Coast is set to depart at sunrise on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, dubbed Starlink 10-22, will be the company\u2019s 110th Falcon 9 launch of the year. SpaceX is aiming for liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:06 a.m. EDT (1106 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>On Tuesday, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 70 percent chance for favorable weather, citing a potential concern for interference from cumulus clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIsolated showers over the gulf stream are expected in the morning hours during both primary and back up launch days,\u201d the meteorologists added.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the missions using the first stage booster 1083, which will fly for a 14th time. Some of its previous missions included NASA\u2019s Crew-8, Polaris Dawn and Intuitive Machines\u2019 second lunar lander.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1083 will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas.\u2019 If successful, this will be there 123rd landing on this vessel and the 499th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>The 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites onboard the rocket will be deployed a little more than an hour after liftoff. This is scheduled to be SpaceX\u2019s 79th mission this year supporting its satellite megaconstellation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) ahead of the launch of&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":128505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-128504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}