{"id":353773,"date":"2025-12-17T09:12:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:12:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353773\/"},"modified":"2025-12-17T09:12:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-17T09:12:08","slug":"spacex-to-fly-starlink-mission-using-falcon-9-booster-flying-for-a-30th-time-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/353773\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to fly Starlink mission using Falcon 9 booster flying for a 30th time \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-65369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small-678x452.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing for the launch of its Falcon 9 rocket Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. It\u2019s set to be the second out of two planned flights that day, following a launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida scheduled for just hours before.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 15-13 mission will add another 27 broadband internet satellites to low Earth orbit. This will be SpaceX\u2019s 49th Starlink mission flying from Space Launch Complex 4 East.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is scheduled for 7:22 a.m. PST (10:22 a.m. EST \/ 1522 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving the 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 first stage booster with the tail number, 1063. This will be its 30th launch, making it SpaceX\u2019s third booster to reach the 30-flight milestone.<\/p>\n<p>Some of its previous flights include the launches of NASA\u2019s DART, three National Reconnaissance Office missions and Transporter-7.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1063 will target an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this will be the 171st landing on this vessel and the 553rd booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":188364,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-353773","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\/353773","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=353773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/353773\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/188364"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=353773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=353773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=353773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}