{"id":49943,"date":"2025-09-08T00:00:18","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:00:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49943\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T00:00:18","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T00:00:18","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-from-california-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/49943\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from California\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

A rocket lifts into a fog layer blanketing its launch site, obscuring the view of the booster.<\/p>\n

A SpaceX Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites soared into the blue sky over California on Saturday (Sept. 6) after emerging 20 seconds into its flight from a fog layer typical of its launch site.<\/p>\n

The booster lifted off at 2:06 p.m. EDT (1806 GMT or 11:06 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a>. The blue sky gave way to the blackness of space about 8 minutes and 4o seconds after leaving the ground.<\/p>\n

The 24 Starlink internet broadband satellites (Group 17-2<\/a>) were on course to be deployed into low Earth orbit about 53 minutes later.<\/p>\n

The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands on landing legs atop a droneship in the Pacific Ocean, following a successful launch of 24 Starlink satellites on Saturday, Sept. 6, 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

For the 20th time, the Falcon 9 rocket’s first stage (booster 1075) successfully returned to a touchdown on its four landing legs atop a sea-based platform. The “Of Course I Still Love You<\/a>” droneship was positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

The flight expanded SpaceX<\/a>‘s megaconstellation designed to provide internet service to areas around the globe where connectivity is otherwise unavailable. Saturday’s 24 satellites added to the almost 9,000 units that comprise the network.<\/p>\n

The mission was the 112th Falcon 9 launch of the year and 530th since 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A rocket lifts into a fog layer blanketing its launch site, obscuring the view of the booster. A…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":49944,"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-49943","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\/49943","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=49943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/49944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}