{"id":169060,"date":"2025-09-20T05:09:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:09:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/169060\/"},"modified":"2025-09-20T05:09:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-20T05:09:07","slug":"3rd-time-is-a-charm-for-delayed-spacex-launch-of-starlink-satellites-local-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/169060\/","title":{"rendered":"3rd Time Is a Charm for Delayed SpaceX Launch of Starlink Satellites | Local News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After dealing with delays while the remnants of tropical storm Mario moved through the Central Coast, a third attempt saw a Falcon 9 rocket lift off Friday from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vandenberg.spaceforce.mil\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket launched at 9:31 a.m. from Space Launch Complex-4 on South Base after Wednesday and Thursday countdowns were scrubbed.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight minutes later, the first-stage booster finished its 10th flight and landed on a droneship in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The 24 <a href=\"http:\/\/www.starlink.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Starlink<\/a> satellites successfully deployed from the rocket slightly more than an hour after blastoff, according to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.spacex.com\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">SpaceX<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWith each launch, Starlink adds more capacity to the constellation and continues to expand our coverage, connecting even more people in more places all around the world with high-speed internet,\u201d Starlink representatives said on social media.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In late August, Starlink said it had 7 million customers for the system to provide internet service around the world using orbiting satellites instead a land-based system.<\/p>\n<p>The space-based system allows access in areas where traditional internet service isn\u2019t available or reliable.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink mission\u2019s delays have pushed the West Coast\u2019s next Falcon 9 rocket launch to Monday at the earliest. It initially had been scheduled for Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>That mission involving a payload for the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nro.gov\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">National Reconnaissance Office<\/a> is planned between 10:23 and 11:23 a.m.<\/p>\n<p>After completing its chores, the first-stage for the NRO mission will return to land at Vandenberg more than seven minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After dealing with delays while the remnants of tropical storm Mario moved through the Central Coast, a third&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":169061,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[983,79,193],"class_list":["post-169060","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-local-news","tag-science","tag-space"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169060","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=169060"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/169060\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/169061"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=169060"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=169060"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=169060"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}