{"id":67699,"date":"2025-05-02T06:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67699\/"},"modified":"2025-05-02T06:28:07","modified_gmt":"2025-05-02T06:28:07","slug":"spacex-launches-28-internet-satellites-from-florida","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/67699\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Internet satellites from Florida"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, like the one pictured here, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on Thursday night with a payload of Starlink satellites. Photo by Joe Marino\/UPI | <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/News_Photos\/lp\/b4f91fc337011d765db854a47abacd65\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">License Photo<\/a><\/p>\n<p>May 1 (UPI) &#8212; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/SpaceX\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"SpaceX\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">SpaceX<\/a> launched 28 V2 Internet satellites into low-Earth orbit from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida on Thursday night, adding to its fleet of nearly 7,300 orbitals already in space.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the payload was launched just after 6:51 p.m. EDT.\n<\/p>\n<p>It was the 18th mission for the first-stage fuel booster, which landed on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.upi.com\/topic\/drones\/\" target=\"_blank\" title=\"Drones\" class=\"tpstyle\" rel=\"noopener\">drone<\/a> ship Just Read the Instructions, stationed in the Atlantic ocean, about 8 1\/2 minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p>This reusable booster, with the tail number 1080, has been used to launch two private astronaut missions to the International Space Station, two cargo missions and the European Space Agency&#8217;s Euclid observatory.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 440th time SpaceX has employed a reusable fuel booster, the 468th SpaceX launch overall and the 51st of the year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket, like the one pictured here, launched from the Kennedy Space Center, Fla., on&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":67700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3161],"tags":[2595,3082,70,413,1603,53,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-67699","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-drones","9":"tag-internet","10":"tag-science","11":"tag-space","12":"tag-spacex","13":"tag-technology","14":"tag-uk","15":"tag-united-kingdom"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@uk\/114436827090326914","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67699","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=67699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/67700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}