{"id":840207,"date":"2026-09-08T04:24:13","date_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:24:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840207\/"},"modified":"2026-09-08T04:24:13","modified_gmt":"2026-09-08T04:24:13","slug":"spacex-launches-27-starlink-internet-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/840207\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 27 Starlink Internet satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday.<\/p>\n<p>The launch took place from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 7:26 a.m. local time (2:26 p.m. GMT) on Sunday, September 6.<\/p>\n<p>Ukrinform reports this, citing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starlink\/group-15-24-launch-ocisly\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Space.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The rocket\u2019s first stage returned to Earth as planned 8.5 minutes later, landing on SpaceX\u2019s drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 19th flight of this particular booster.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, Falcon 9\u2019s upper stage deployed the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/tag-starlink\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">27 Starlink satellites<\/a> into low Earth orbit, deploying them into orbit as scheduled 62 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>Sunday\u2019s launch was Falcon 9\u2019s 103rd flight of the year.<\/p>\n<p>See also: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ukrinform.ua\/rubric-world\/4159646-u-rosian-vinikli-trudnosi-u-kosmosi-zi-svidkim-rozgortannam-analoga-starlink-isw.html\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Russians face difficulties in rapidly deploying a Starlink analogue in space \u2014 ISW\u00a0<\/a><\/p>\n<p>According to astronomer and satellite-tracking specialist Jonathan McDowell, the Starlink megaconstellation currently comprises more than 11,000 active spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>As previously reported by Ukrinform, Germany\u2019s Isar Aerospace became the first European commercial space company to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.esa.int\/Enabling_Support\/Space_Transportation\/Boost\/Isar_Aerospace_achieves_first_launch_to_orbit_from_continental_Europe\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">successfully deliver satellites into orbit\u00a0.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Photo via X \/ SpaceX<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink internet satellites into low Earth orbit on Sunday. The launch took&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":840208,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-840207","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\/840207","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=840207"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/840207\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/840208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=840207"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=840207"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=840207"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}