{"id":429048,"date":"2026-01-25T13:42:09","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:42:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429048\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T13:42:09","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T13:42:09","slug":"spacex-to-launch-25-starlink-satellites-to-polar-low-earth-orbit-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/429048\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 25 Starlink satellites to polar, low Earth orbit \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-large wp-image-69065\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20250320_NROL_57_Vertical_small-678x313.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the NROL-57 mission. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX plans to launch 25 of its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-20 mission will send the broadband satellites into a polar low Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a southerly trajectory upon leaving Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 8:44 a.m. PST (11:44 a.m. EST \/ 1644 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to launch.<\/p>\n<p>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1097. This will be its sixth flight after launching Sentinel-6B, the Twilight ride share and three batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1097 is set to land on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 173rd landing on this vessel and the 563rd booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":429049,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-429048","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\/429048","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=429048"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/429048\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/429049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=429048"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=429048"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=429048"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}