{"id":520744,"date":"2026-03-13T07:36:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:36:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520744\/"},"modified":"2026-03-13T07:36:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-13T07:36:10","slug":"spacex-to-launch-25-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-space-force-base-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/520744\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX to launch 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><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 scheduled to launch a pair of Falcon 9 rockets from both California and Florida on Friday morning. Following the flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base is planned to fly just a couple hours after the launch from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-31 mission will add 25 broadband internet satellites to SpaceX\u2019s low Earth orbit megaconstellation. Deployment is expected a little more than an hour after the launch.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 7:33:50 a.m. PDT (10:33:50 a.m. EDT \/ 1433:50 UTC).<\/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 Starlink 17-31 mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1071. This will be its 32nd flight following the launch of missions, like NASA\u2019s SWOT, five missions for the National Reconnaissance Office and five SmallSat rideshare missions.<\/p>\n<p>A little less than 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1071 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 183rd landing on this vessel and the 585th booster landing for SpaceX.<\/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-520744","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\/520744","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=520744"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/520744\/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=520744"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=520744"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=520744"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}