{"id":653666,"date":"2026-05-20T03:37:26","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:37:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653666\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T03:37:26","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:37:26","slug":"live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-launch-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/653666\/","title":{"rendered":"Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72112\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260110_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is vertical at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the launch of the Starlink 9-10 mission on Nov. 8, 2024. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is preparing to launch its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night to send a batch of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-42, will add another 24 broadband internet satellites to a constellation of spacecraft that consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft. More than 600 of those satellites support direct-to-device capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 7:46 p.m. PDT (10:46 p.m. EDT \/ 0246 UTC). The 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>\ufeff<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1103. This will be its second launch after flying the Starlink 17-35 mission on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>The booster was previously assigned to the NROL-172 mission, but was swapped for B1097 prior to launch. SpaceX didn\u2019t offer an explanation for the swap.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1103 will target a landing on the drone ship \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 197th landing on this vessel and the 612th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket is vertical at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400338,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-653666","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\/653666","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=653666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/653666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400338"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=653666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=653666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=653666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}