{"id":625214,"date":"2026-05-05T17:19:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:19:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625214\/"},"modified":"2026-05-05T17:19:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-05T17:19:11","slug":"spacex-to-launch-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/625214\/","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-full wp-image-73061\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260329_20260313_Starlink_G17_31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\"  \/>File: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the Starlink 17-31 mission on March 13, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is to launch its second Starlink mission in the month of May, this time from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California aboard a Falcon 9 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-29 mission will send another 24 broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit, adding to a constellation of more than 10,000 spacecraft. SpaceX\u2019s <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2026\/05\/01\/live-coverage-spacex-marks-may-day-with-starlink-mission-on-a-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">first Starlink launch of the month<\/a> was from Cape Canaveral on May 1.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled at 7:35 p.m. PDT (10:35 p.m. EDT \/ 0235 UTC). The Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p>Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster B1081, making its 24th flight. Previous launches by this booster included the NASA Crew-7, PACE, and CRS-29 missions.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1081 will target a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 195th landing on this vessel and the 609 booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":553854,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-625214","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\/625214","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=625214"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/625214\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/553854"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=625214"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=625214"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=625214"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}