{"id":813724,"date":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/813724\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T05:34:14","slug":"spacex-springs-forward-with-another-starlink-launch-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/813724\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX springs forward with another Starlink launch from California"},"content":{"rendered":"

Hours after setting clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time, SpaceX went forward with a launch of Starlink satellites on Sunday (March 8).<\/p>\n

The Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off at 7:00 a.m. EDT (11:00 GMT or 4:00 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California. About an our later, SpaceX confirmed<\/a> the successful deployment of all 25 broadband internet relay satellites (Group 17-18<\/a>) into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n

The Falcon’s first stage, Booster 1097, completed its seventh spaceflight with a landing on the “Of Course I Still Love You” droneship, which was stationed in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

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A time lapse photograph captures the streak of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket as it launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sunday, March 8, 2026. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The launch increased the total number of active Starlink satellites to 9,915, according to satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The mission was SpaceX’s 29th of the year and 639th in its history.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Hours after setting clocks forward for Daylight Savings Time, SpaceX went forward with a launch of Starlink satellites…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":813725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3844],"tags":[70,413,16,15],"class_list":{"0":"post-813724","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\/116197593370723680","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813724","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=813724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/813724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/813725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=813724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=813724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=813724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}