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A white rocket blasts off next to a black launch tower.<\/p>\n A white rocket blasts off next to a black launch tower.<\/p>\n
SpaceX launched a fresh batch of Starlink spacecraft into orbit this morning (Sep. 3), lofting 28 more satellites into the company’s megaconstellation of over 8,000.<\/p>\n
A Falcon 9 rocket<\/a> lifted off from Space Launch Complex-40, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> in Florida at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT). It came just over 8 hours after a different Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites of its own<\/a> late Monday night from SpaceX’s Vandenberg Space Force Base pad in California.<\/p>\n The mission, Starlink 10-22, carried more than two dozen of the broadband relays into low-Earth orbit (LEO), deploying the satellites about an hour after liftoff, SpaceX confirmed in a post on X<\/a>.<\/p>\n It was the 14th launch of B1083, the Falcon 9 booster that supported Starlink 10-22. About 2.5 minutes after liftoff, the booter successfully executed a main engine cutoff (MECO) and stage separation from the rocket’s upper half.<\/p>\n After successful deceleration and landing burns, B1083 softly touched down on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean about six minutes later.<\/p>\n Starlink 10-22 is SpaceX’s 113th launch of 2025, and is the second of five Starlink launches the company has scheduled<\/a> for this week. (The first was last night’s flight from California.)<\/p>\n SpaceX’s Starlink megaconstellation<\/a> currently totals more than 8,100 satellites in LEO, according to astronomer and spacecraft tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>. They provide internet access to Starlink subscribers around the globe, offering access to low-latency high speed internet with nearly worldwide coverage.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A white rocket blasts off next to a black launch tower. SpaceX launched a fresh batch of Starlink…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":41973,"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-41972","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\/41972","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=41972"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/41972\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/41973"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=41972"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=41972"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=41972"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![](\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/RQ6CRM47oFaAst7wzCQZ7i.jpg\")
The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 B1083 stands on the A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship in the Atlantic Ocean on Wednesday, Sep. 3, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n