{"id":461792,"date":"2026-02-11T08:16:08","date_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461792\/"},"modified":"2026-02-11T08:16:08","modified_gmt":"2026-02-11T08:16:08","slug":"spacex-to-launch-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/461792\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB \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 its 12th Starlink mission of the year so far with a Falcon 9 rocket launch set for Wednesday morning from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-34 mission will add another 24 broadband internet satellites to the growing low Earth orbit constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 6:14:40 a.m. PST (9:14:40 a.m. EST \/ 1414:40 UTC). The rocket will fly on a southerly 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 booster with the tail number 1100. This will be its third flight after previously launching the Starlink 11-30 and NROL-105 missions.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff B1100 will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this will be the 177th landing on this vessel and the 569th booster landing for SpaceX.<\/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-461792","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\/461792","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=461792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/461792\/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=461792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=461792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=461792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}