{"id":90598,"date":"2025-08-17T23:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90598\/"},"modified":"2025-08-17T23:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-17T23:38:07","slug":"24-starlink-satellites-to-launch-from-california-on-100th-falcon-9-rocket-of-the-year-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/90598\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Starlink satellites to launch from California on 100th Falcon 9 rocket of the year \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-65369\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/20240214_Starlink_7-14_prelaunch_small.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\"  \/>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Image: SpaceX<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is set to launch its 100th Falcon 9 rocket of the year on Monday morning. The flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base will carry another batch of Starlink optimized V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-5 mission will also be the 72nd SpaceX launch of Starlink satellites so far in 2025. It will bring the total number of Starlink satellites orbited in 2025 to 1,786.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Vandenberg\u2019s pad 4E is currently scheduled for 9:23 a.m. PDT (12:23 p.m. EDT \/ 1623 UTC). Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about 30 minutes prior to launch.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX will use the Falcon 9 first stage booster 1088 to launch this mission, which will mark its ninth trip to space. Its previous missions include NROL-126, NROL-57 and NASA\u2019s SPHEREx\/PUNCH ride share mission.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1088 will target a landing on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 If successful, this will be the 145th booster landing on this vessel and the 489th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>Deployment of the 24 satellites should occur a little over an hour into flight. A deorbit burn will dispose of the rocket\u2019s second stage in the Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands ready to launch the Starlink 7-14 mission from Vandenberg Space Force&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90599,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[48],"tags":[79,193],"class_list":["post-90598","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\/90598","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=90598"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90598\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90599"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90598"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90598"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90598"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}