{"id":180524,"date":"2025-09-25T09:40:08","date_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:40:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180524\/"},"modified":"2025-09-25T09:40:08","modified_gmt":"2025-09-25T09:40:08","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/180524\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69907\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250605_Falcon-9_night_pad_file.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"538\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n<p>Update Sept. 25, 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the droneship.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX was back at the launch pad Thursday morning, launching its 86th Starlink mission of the year so far.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 10-15 flight will add another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to the growing megaconstellation of more than 8,400 currently on orbit. SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station is scheduled for 4:39 a.m. EDT (0839 UTC).<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>Heading into the launch opportunity, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 90 percent chance for favorable weather. Meteorologists said there was a chance for interference from \u201csome mid and upper level clouds,\u201d but noted that a \u201cdrying trend\u201d was persisting Thursday morning.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched this mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1080. It\u2019s one of SpaceX\u2019s more often used boosters, which made its 22nd flight on this mission.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff B1080 completed an autonomous landing on the drone ship, A Shortfall of Gravitas. This was the 126th recovery for this drone ship and the 511th booster landing for SpaceX, if all goes well.<\/p>\n<p>The 28 Starlink satellites onboard the rocket will be deployed about an hour and 4 minutes after liftoff.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":5563,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-180524","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\/180524","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=180524"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180524\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5563"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=180524"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=180524"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=180524"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}