{"id":285245,"date":"2026-01-15T06:04:10","date_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:04:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285245\/"},"modified":"2026-01-15T06:04:10","modified_gmt":"2026-01-15T06:04:10","slug":"starlink-satellites-lift-off-on-spacex-falcon-9-from","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/285245\/","title":{"rendered":"Starlink satellites lift off on SpaceX Falcon 9 from\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A close-up of a payload fairing atop a rocket as it lifs off from its ocean-side launch pad.<\/p>\n

SpaceX added 29 more Starlink<\/a> satellites to its low Earth orbit megaconstellation today (Jan. 14).<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying the broadband internet relay units launched from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> in Florida on Wednesday. The rocket reached its preliminary orbit about nine minutes after the 1:08 p.m. EST (1808 GMT) liftoff.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage was on track to deploy the Starlink satellites (Group 6-98<\/a>) about an hour into the flight.<\/p>\n

The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket touches down on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas” in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, Jan. 14, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

Meanwhile, the rocket’s first stage (B1085) completed its 13th flight by performing a propulsive landing on the droneship “A Shortfall of Gravitas<\/a>,” which was stationed in Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n

The additional satellites continue to grow the Starlink service’s coverage, providing access to the internet in underserved areas. The network has nearly 9,500 active units, according to tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Wednesday’s launch was SpaceX’s sixth mission of 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A close-up of a payload fairing atop a rocket as it lifs off from its ocean-side launch pad.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":285246,"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-285245","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\/115897608764092755","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285245","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=285245"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285245\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/285246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}