{"id":213204,"date":"2025-12-03T13:13:10","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:13:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213204\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T13:13:10","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T13:13:10","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-29-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/213204\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink satellites\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A white and black rocket launches into a dusk sky, leaving behind a puffy plume.<\/p>\n

Twenty-nine newly-launched Starlink satellites are now in low Earth orbit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying the internet broadband relay units lifted off from Space Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> in Florida on Tuesday (Dec. 2). The Starlink satellites were successfully deployed 1 hour and 5 minutes after the 5:18 p.m. EST (2218 GMT) liftoff.<\/p>\n

“Deployment of 29 Starlink satellites confirmed,” SpaceX posted to social media<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The sun sets behind the recovered first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket after a successful Starlink satellite launch from Cape Canaveral, Florida on Tuesday, Dec. 2, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage, Booster 1077 (B1077), completed its ascent and then returned to Earth for a propulsive landing on the autonomous drone ship, “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. It was the 25th flight for the rocket, according to a mission description<\/a> on SpaceX’s website.<\/p>\n

The Starlink satellites (Group 6-95) joined the more than 9,100 operational relays forming SpaceX<\/a>‘s megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

Tuesday’s launch was the 155th Falcon 9 flight of 2025, out of SpaceX’s 160 missions in total this year (to date).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A white and black rocket launches into a dusk sky, leaving behind a puffy plume. Twenty-nine newly-launched Starlink…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":213205,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[270],"tags":[9,1063,18,1831,19,1826,17,5,1828,1827,1829,133,451,1830,66],"class_list":{"0":"post-213204","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-breaking-news","9":"tag-daily-news","10":"tag-eire","11":"tag-global-news","12":"tag-ie","13":"tag-inkl","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-news","16":"tag-news-app","17":"tag-news-headlines","18":"tag-news-today","19":"tag-science","20":"tag-space","21":"tag-today-news","22":"tag-world-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115655816805425065","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213204","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=213204"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/213204\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/213205"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=213204"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=213204"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=213204"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}