{"id":133227,"date":"2025-10-20T04:44:14","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:44:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133227\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T04:44:14","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T04:44:14","slug":"spacex-launches-rockets-from-opposite-coasts-ties-mission-total","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/133227\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches rockets from opposite coasts, ties mission total"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Oct. 19 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SpaceX\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> launched a pair of Falcon 9 rockets from opposite coasts Sunday, sending a total of 56 satellites into low-Earth orbit, adding to the growing Starlink commercial fleet.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-17\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">The first launch<\/a> occurred at 1:39 p.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral.\n<\/p>\n<p>Space Force Station and the second lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Station in California at 12:24 p.m. PDT.<\/p>\n<p>The first launch marked a record 31st time that the first stage fuel booster rocket was employed to power a Falcon 9 liftoff.<\/p>\n<p>About eight minutes after liftoff, it returned to the droneship &#8220;A Shortfall of Gravitas,&#8221; which was stationed in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The second launch was also successful. Following separation from the spacecraft, the first stage fuel booster rocket <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-11-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">returned to the droneship<\/a>, &#8220;Of course I still Love You,&#8221; stationed in the Pacific Ocean, about eight minutes after liftoff<\/p>\n<p>With the Sunday launches, Spacex&#8217; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-11-19\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">tied a record<\/a> for the total number of Falcon 9 missions <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-10000th-starlink-satellite-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">this year with 132<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Oct. 19 (UPI) &#8212; SpaceX launched a pair of Falcon 9 rockets from opposite coasts Sunday, sending a&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":133228,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133,451,2731],"class_list":{"0":"post-133227","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133227","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=133227"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/133227\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/133228"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=133227"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=133227"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=133227"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}