{"id":40861,"date":"2025-09-03T12:51:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:51:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40861\/"},"modified":"2025-09-03T12:51:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-03T12:51:07","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-from-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/40861\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A brand-new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 2, 2025.<\/p>\n

Another SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket just earned its wings.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> with a brand-new first stage lifted off from Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California today (Sept. 2) at 11:51 p.m. EDT (8:51 p.m. local time; 0351 GMT on Sept. 3), carrying 24 of the company’s Starlink<\/a> internet satellites toward low Earth orbit<\/a> (LEO).<\/p>\n

Such debuts are rare for SpaceX<\/a>, which is famous for its extensive rocket reuse. Indeed, one of its Falcon 9 boosters flew for a record 30th time<\/a> just last week.<\/p>\n

And the booster that launched today will get a chance to fly again: It aced its landing, coming down at sea on the SpaceX drone ship “Just Read the Instructions” about 8.5 minutes after liftoff as planned.<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9’s upper stage, meanwhile, continued carrying the Starlink satellites toward LEO. They’re scheduled to be deployed 62.5 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n

The new batch will join nearly 8,300<\/a> other operational Starlink satellites up there, continuing to flesh out the biggest spacecraft network ever assembled.<\/p>\n

Many of those Starlinks have gone up this year. Today’s launch was the 109th Falcon 9 flight of 2025, and more than 70% of them have been Starlink missions.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A brand-new SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites to orbit from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":40862,"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-40861","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\/40861","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=40861"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/40861\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40862"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=40861"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=40861"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=40861"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}