{"id":335557,"date":"2025-12-07T19:03:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:03:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335557\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T19:03:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T19:03:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/335557\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70903\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20250818_Starlink_G17_5_Vertical.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\"  \/>File \u2013 SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 17-5 mission on Aug. 18, 2025. This was the ninth flight for Falcon 9 booster, tail number B1088. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is closing out the weekend with a mid-morning Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-15 mission will add another 28 broadband internet satellites to its massive low Earth orbit constellation. This will be SpaceX\u2019s 115th launch of Starlink satellites so far in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 9:58 a.m. PST (12:58 p.m. EST \/ 1758 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number 1088. This will its 12th flight following the launches of NASA\u2019s SPHEREx, Transporter-12 and two missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NROL-57 and NROL-126).<\/p>\n<p>About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1088 will perform an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 168th booster landing on this vessel and the 545th booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has another launch scheduled for later in the day on Sunday from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. That mission will feature the 3,000th Starlink satellite launched in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File \u2013 SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands in the vertical launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":249929,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-335557","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\/335557","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=335557"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/335557\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/249929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=335557"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=335557"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=335557"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}