{"id":171830,"date":"2025-11-09T18:23:13","date_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:23:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171830\/"},"modified":"2025-11-09T18:23:13","modified_gmt":"2025-11-09T18:23:13","slug":"spacex-launches-29-starlink-satellites-from-floridas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/171830\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida&#8217;s\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/p9BjsD9a3EWwwB8qE5XKEG-1280-80.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Nov. 9, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites early this morning (Nov. 9).<\/p>\n<p>A <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Falcon 9<\/a> rocket topped with 29 <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Starlink<\/a> spacecraft lifted off today at 3:10 a.m. EST (0810 GMT)<strong> <\/strong>from storied <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/35736-nasa-greatest-space-launches-from-pad-39a.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Pad 39A<\/a> at NASA&#8217;s <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/17705-nasa-kennedy-space-center.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Kennedy Space Center<\/a> in Florida.<\/p>\n<p>The rocket&#8217;s first stage came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching down in the Atlantic Ocean on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SpaceX<\/a> drone ship &#8220;A Shortfall of Gravitas.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/p9BjsD9a3EWwwB8qE5XKEG.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Nov. 9, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<p>It was the 28th flight for this particular booster, which carries the designation 1069. The record is 31, which was <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-falcon-9-31st-flight-rocket-reuse-record-starlink-launch\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">set last month<\/a> by Booster 1067 on a Starlink launch.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Falcon 9&#8217;s upper stage continued hauling the 29 Starlink satellites to <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">low Earth orbit<\/a> today, where they&#8217;re scheduled to be deployed 64 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/BwB2VvqcdgARbBSt9psPoL.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>The Falcon 9&#8217;s first stage shortly after its landing on Nov. 9, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n<p>Previous Booster 1069 launches<\/p>\n<p>The newcomers will join <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">more than 8,800<\/a> operational satellites in the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the largest network of spacecraft ever assembled.<\/p>\n<p>Many of them have gone up this year: SpaceX has now launched 143 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, and 103 of them have been Starlink flights.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites from Florida on Nov. 9, 2025. 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