{"id":810518,"date":"2026-08-11T22:30:10","date_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:30:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810518\/"},"modified":"2026-08-11T22:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-08-11T22:30:10","slug":"live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb-spaceflight-now-6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/810518\/","title":{"rendered":"Live coverage: SpaceX to launch 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73230\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/08\/20241109_Starlink_G9_10_Vertical_Sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\"  \/>File: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the Starlink 9-10 mission on Nov. 8, 2024. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is slated to launch two dozens of its Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Tuesday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-49 mission will be SpaceX\u2019s 51st flight from the West Coast so far this year.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled during a window that opens at 7 p.m. PDT (10 p.m. EDT \/ 0200 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory.<\/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 fifth flight after previously launching SDA-T1TL-E, NROL-179, Starlink 17-35, and Starlink 17-42.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1103 will target a landing on the droneship, Of Course I Still Love You, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this will be the 163rd landing on this vessel and the 648th Falcon booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":810519,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-810518","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\/810518","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=810518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/810518\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/810519"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=810518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=810518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=810518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}