{"id":62016,"date":"2025-09-13T17:15:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:15:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62016\/"},"modified":"2025-09-13T17:15:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-13T17:15:07","slug":"spacex-saturday-starlink-launch-on-schedule","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/62016\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Saturday Starlink launch on schedule"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sept. 13 (UPI) — SpaceX<\/a> is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 rocket Saturday, which will deliver 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

Liftoff from launch site SLC-4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California remained on schedule Saturday morning, with ignition expected to occur at 1:55 p.m. EDT, SpaceX confirmed on its launch schedule page.<\/a>\n<\/p>\n

The California-based space technology company’s latest mission will carry another 24 V2 Mini satellites operated by its Starlink telecom subsidiary.<\/p>\n

SpaceX will live stream the operation on X<\/a>, beginning around five minutes before liftoff, which will mark the company’s 42nd launch from California this year.\n<\/p>\n

The mission will bring the total number of Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit to more than 8,400.<\/p>\n

The flight will also mark the 28th for this first stage booster, with the Falcon 9 rocket having previously propelled 16 Starlink missions, as well as several other satellite transportation flights.<\/p>\n

The rocket also took part in NASA’s Surface Water and Ocean Topography mission<\/a> in 2022, which conducted a global survey of nearly all water on Earth’s surface.<\/p>\n

Rocket separation is expected to occur a little over eight minutes into the flight.\n<\/p>\n

Following the launch, the rocket will land back in the Pacific Ocean off the Southern California coast, where it will be recovered by the company’s Of Course I Still Love You droneship.<\/p>\n

SpaceX also has a launch set for Sunday, when a separate Falcon 9 rocket is scheduled to lift off from<\/a> Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida carrying Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus mission 23 to the International Space Station.<\/p>\n

Two more Starlink launches are also scheduled to lift off next week Wednesday and Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sept. 13 (UPI) — SpaceX is scheduled to launch its Falcon 9 rocket Saturday, which will deliver 24…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":62017,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133,451,2731],"class_list":{"0":"post-62016","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-science","8":"tag-eire","9":"tag-ie","10":"tag-ireland","11":"tag-science","12":"tag-space","13":"tag-spacex"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62016","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=62016"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62016\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/62017"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62016"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62016"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62016"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}