{"id":605033,"date":"2025-12-01T09:57:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:57:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605033\/"},"modified":"2025-12-01T09:57:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-01T09:57:13","slug":"spacex-kicked-off-december-with-predawn-falcon-9-rocket-launch-spaceflight-now","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/605033\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX kicked off December with predawn Falcon 9 rocket launch \u2013 Spaceflight Now"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t<img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71658\" src=\"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251201_Starlink_6-86_liftoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"329\"  \/>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 6-86 mission. Image: Spaceflight Now<\/p>\n<p><strong>Update Dec. 1, 3 a.m. EST (0800 UTC): SpaceX landed its booster on the droneship.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX kicked off the month of December with a launch supporting its Starlink broadband internet satellite constellation.<\/p>\n<p>Prior to this flight, SpaceX has launched it\u2019s workhorse Falcon 9 rocket a total of 152 times in 2025, with missions to assemble its Starlink constellation accounting for 110 of those. It closed out November with 13 launches in total, 10 of which were for Starlink.<\/p>\n<p>The company launched the Starlink 6-86 mission from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center for 2:44 a.m. EST (0744 UTC) on Dec. 1. The rocket flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon departing from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the Starlink 6-86 mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number 1095. This was the rocket\u2019s fourth flight after previously launching Starlink missions 12-15, 10-56 and 10-52.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1095 performed a landing on the drone ship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions\u2019, positioned in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>This was the 144th landing on this vessel and the 541st booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center to begin&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":605034,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-605033","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-space","8":"tag-science","9":"tag-space","10":"tag-uk","11":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/115643721014376080","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605033","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=605033"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/605033\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/605034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=605033"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=605033"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=605033"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}