{"id":156194,"date":"2025-09-14T12:50:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:50:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156194\/"},"modified":"2025-09-14T12:50:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-14T12:50:08","slug":"vandenberg-falcon-launch-marks-300th-starlink-mission-for-spacex-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/156194\/","title":{"rendered":"Vandenberg Falcon Launch Marks 300th Starlink Mission for SpaceX | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Completing the 300th mission for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlink.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a>, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Santa Barbara County on Saturday morning placing 24 more satellites in space.<\/p>\n<p>The two-stage rocket built by <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a> blasted off at 10:55 a.m. from Space Launch Complex-4 at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The rocket\u2019s first-stage booster successfully touched down on the droneship in the Pacific Ocean for what was the 28th launch and landing.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>That makes it among the most traveled boosters in the Falcon fleet with one in Florida having flown 30 times.<\/p>\n<p>The company is working to certify Falcon\u2019s first-stage boosters to fly 40 times or more.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX now has achieved 504 landings for rockets launched from Vandenberg and other launch sites.<\/p>\n<p>The firm\u2019s reuse of the first-stage booster cuts costs for placing satellites in space and helps trim the time between missions.<\/p>\n<p>Recycling the first-stage booster also means they\u2019re not dumped into the ocean once their chores are done. <\/p>\n<p>In addition to reusing the first-stage boosters, SpaceX also captures the two halves of the payload fairings to fly again on future missions. <\/p>\n<p>More than 8,380 Starlink satellites remain in orbit, but the total launched topped 9,680, according to the online tally by astrophysicist Jonathan McDowell, also an astronautics historian. <\/p>\n<p>Another batch of Starlink satellites will travel to space as soon as Wednesday from Vandenberg with the mission planned between 8:41 a.m. and 12:41 p.m., according to SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Completing the 300th mission for Starlink, a Falcon 9 rocket launched from Santa Barbara County on Saturday morning&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":156195,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-156194","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\/156194","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=156194"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156194\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/156195"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=156194"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=156194"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=156194"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}