{"id":85772,"date":"2025-09-26T00:34:11","date_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:34:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85772\/"},"modified":"2025-09-26T00:34:11","modified_gmt":"2025-09-26T00:34:11","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-broadband-satellites-to","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/85772\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink broadband satellites to\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>        <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/K7mR7dQDF37Yq2q3dX3xrd-1280-80.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\"\/>SpaceX launch sept 25, 2025.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from Florida this morning (Sept. 25).<\/p>\n<p>A <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Falcon 9<\/a> rocket carrying 28 Starlink craft lifted off from <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/33926-cape-canaveral.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/a> today at 4:39 a.m. EDT (0839 GMT).<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9&#8217;s first stage returned to Earth about 8.5 minutes later as planned, touching down on the <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SpaceX<\/a> drone ship &#8220;A Shortfall of Gravitas&#8221;  in the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>According to a <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-10-15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">SpaceX mission description<\/a>, it was the 22nd flight for this booster, which is designated B1080.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9&#8217;s upper stage continued hauling the 28 Starlink satellites toward <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">low Earth orbit<\/a>, where they deployed 64 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has now launched 122 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, more than 70% of them devoted to building out the huge and ever-growing Starlink megaconstellation.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink \u2014 by far the largest satellite network ever assembled \u2014 currently consists of more than 8,400 active spacecraft, <a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener nofollow\">according to<\/a> astrophysicist and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch sept 25, 2025. SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":85773,"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-85772","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\/85772","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=85772"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85772\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/85773"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85772"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85772"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85772"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}