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A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Aug. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Aug. 30, 2025.<\/p>\n
SpaceX launched another batch of its Starlink broadband satellites today (Aug. 30), sending 24 of them up from California’s central coast.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying the Starlink<\/a> craft lifted off today from Vandenberg Space Force Base at 12:59 a.m. EDT (0359 GMT; 9:59 p.m. local California time on Aug. 29).<\/p>\n The rocket’s first stage, designated Booster 1082, came back to Earth as planned about 8.5 minutes later, touching down at sea on the SpaceX<\/a> drone ship named “Of Course I Still Love You.” It was the 15th launch and landing for this particular booster, according to a SpaceX mission description<\/a>.<\/p>\n That number, while impressive, is far from SpaceX’s reuse record of 30, which a Falcon 9 booster set this past Thursday<\/a> (Aug. 28) on another Starlink mission.<\/p>\n If all goes to plan on today’s flight, the Falcon 9’s upper stage will deploy the 24 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit<\/a> 62.5 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n Previous Booster 1082 missions<\/p>\n Today’s launch was the 107th Falcon 9 flight of 2025. More than 70% of those missions have been dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the largest satellite assemblage ever constructed. It currently consists of more than 8,200 operational satellites<\/a>, and the number continues to grow.<\/p>\n SpaceX has also launched four other missions so far this year \u2014 test flights of Starship<\/a>, the giant, fully reusable rocket it’s developing to help humanity settle the moon and Mars. The most recent of these Starship tests launched on Tuesday<\/a> (Aug. 26) and was a complete success<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink internet satellites to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":33823,"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-33822","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":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33822","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=33822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33822\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/33823"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/3F8jztBRbff73dCHArK5GS.jpg\")
The Falcon 9’s first stage rests on the deck of a drone ship shortly after launching 24 Starlink internet satellites from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Aug. 30, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n