{"id":7568,"date":"2025-08-18T17:23:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:23:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7568\/"},"modified":"2025-08-18T17:23:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-18T17:23:07","slug":"spacex-launches-starlink-satellites-in-100th-falcon-9-launch-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/7568\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Starlink satellites in 100th Falcon 9 launch of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket goes supersonic as it launches 28 Starlink satellites at 8:29 AM from Launch Complex 40 at the Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on Thursday August 14,2025. Photo by Joe Marino\/UPI | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/0ea7c06d2f6fa8e8d4449862ca614d82\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">License Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Aug. 18 (UPI) &#8212; The <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SpaceX\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> spacecraft company successfully launched two dozen satellites into low-Earth orbit Monday on its latest Falcon 9 mission of the year.<br \/>\n<br class=\"Apple-interchange-newline\"\/><\/p>\n<p>The SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/1957477662726779083\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\">rocket took off from<\/a> Space Launch Complex 4 East, or SLC-4E, at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 12:27 p.m. EDT.\n<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9&#8217;s payload<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-5\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\"> consisted of 24 Starlink<\/a> V2 Mini satellites, which provide high-speed internet.<\/p>\n<p>It was the ninth flight for the first stage booster used in the mission, which has previously supported four different Starlink placement missions, in addition to other low-Earth orbit tasks.<\/p>\n<p>After the rocket stages separated, its first stage <a href=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/2025\/08\/17\/live-coverage-24-starlink-satellites-to-launch-from-california-on-100th-falcon-9-rocket-of-the-year\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">returned to Earth and landed<\/a> on the Of Course I Still Love You droneship, positioned in the Pacific Ocean, marking the 145th booster landing on the droneship and the 489th booster landing overall.<\/p>\n<p>The second stage will be eliminated in a deorbit burn over the Pacific Ocean, east of New Zealand.<\/p>\n<p>Monday&#8217;s mission is the 72nd SpaceX launch of Starlink satellites thus far this year, bringing the total number of Starlink satellites orbited in 2025 to 1,786.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket goes supersonic as it launches 28 Starlink satellites at 8:29 AM from Launch&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":7569,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[77],"tags":[18,19,17,133,451,2731,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-7568","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","14":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568","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=7568"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7568\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7569"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7568"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7568"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7568"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}