{"id":107783,"date":"2025-10-08T02:36:11","date_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:36:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107783\/"},"modified":"2025-10-08T02:36:11","modified_gmt":"2025-10-08T02:36:11","slug":"spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-launches-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/107783\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 rocket launches 90th Starlink mission of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 7 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SpaceX\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> hit a milestone on Tuesday after dozens of new Starlink satellites were launched into orbit in its 130th launch this year.<\/p>\n<p>The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/Elon_Musk\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Elon Musk\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Elon Musk<\/a>-owned SpaceX added that its workhorse Falcon 9 <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/10\/06\/live-coverage-spacex-to-launch-falcon-9-rocket-on-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">rocket saw its<\/a> 126th flight of 2025 as the Starlink 10-59 mission took off in the early morning hours.\n<\/p>\n<p>The mission adds 28 more satellites to the growing megaconstellation of more than 8,500 Starlink devices flying in low Earth orbit in order to expand global broadband Internet access. <\/p>\n<p>SpaceX&#8217;s Falcon 9 saw liftoff at 2:46 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, after persistent daily storms over the Atlantic Ocean and central Florida put a wrench in launch efforts over the last week.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starlink-satellite-launch-group-10-59-asog\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">first stage arrived as<\/a> planned less than nine minutes later in the Atlantic Ocean on SpaceX&#8217;s A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, it was the eighth launch and landing for the designated B1090 booster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 7 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX hit a milestone on Tuesday after dozens of new Starlink satellites were launched&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":107784,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[79,18,1647,19,17,133,451,2731,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-107783","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-eire","10":"tag-elon-musk","11":"tag-ie","12":"tag-ireland","13":"tag-science","14":"tag-space","15":"tag-spacex","16":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107783","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=107783"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/107783\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/107784"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=107783"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=107783"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=107783"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}