{"id":232957,"date":"2025-10-18T03:22:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:22:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232957\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T03:22:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T03:22:11","slug":"spacex-to-launch-nearly-30-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232957\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch nearly 30 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION \u2014 With not a worry in sight (at the moment), the weather is looking good as SpaceX is preparing for another Starlink launch on Sunday morning.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>What You Need To Know<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket will send up Starlink 10-17 mission<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket will send up Starlink 10-17 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">stated SpaceX<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>The launch window will open at 10:52 a.m. ET to 2:52 p.m. ET. That means SpaceX needs to launch during that timeframe.<\/p>\n<p>On Friday afternoon, the 45th Weather Squadron gave a\u00a095% chance of good liftoff conditions and with no primary concerns, which is rare.<\/p>\n<p>Find out more about the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nasa.gov\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/07\/falcon9_crewdragon_launch_weather_criteria_fact_sheet.pdf?emrc=6cc43d\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">weather criteria for a Falcon 9 launch<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Going up for the old timer<\/p>\n<p>This will be the 31st mission for the Falcon 9&#8217;s first-stage booster\u00a0B1067.<\/p>\n<p>Old B1067 has a number of missions under its belt, including two crewed launches.<\/p>\n<p>After the stage separation, the first-stage rocket will land on the droneship\u00a0Shortfall of Gravitas\u00a0that will be in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/02-17-2023_SpaceX_Booster_Seperation_Landing.jpeg\" alt=\"\" class=\"hashed-image\" img-data-alignment=\"center\" width=\"100%\" loading=\"lazy\"\/><br \/>\nAbout the mission<\/p>\n<p>Once deployed and in their low-Earth orbit, the Starlink company\u2019s 28 satellites will join the thousands already there and provide internet service to many parts of Earth.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX owns the Starlink company.<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Jonathan McDowell, of Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, has been documenting Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Before this launch,\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">McDowell recorded the following<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p>8,626 are in orbit<br \/>\n7,455 are in operational orbit<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"CAPE CANAVERAL SPACE FORCE STATION \u2014 With not a worry in sight (at the moment), the weather is&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232958,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[129123,66082,2722,34722,37529,56589,66080,3,13677,79,193,624,74,452,37530],"class_list":["post-232957","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-space","tag-anthony-leone","tag-app-space","tag-app-top-stories","tag-brevard-county","tag-instagram-bn9","tag-instagram-n13","tag-new-space-race","tag-news","tag-orlando","tag-science","tag-space","tag-tampa","tag-technology","tag-top-stories","tag-trending-topics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232957","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=232957"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232957\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232957"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232957"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232957"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}