{"id":96291,"date":"2025-07-27T08:45:11","date_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:45:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96291\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T08:45:11","modified_gmt":"2025-07-27T08:45:11","slug":"spacex-launch-from-california-marks-2nd-starlink-mission-in-24-hours","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/96291\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launch from California marks 2nd Starlink mission in 24 hours"},"content":{"rendered":"

SpaceX launched 24 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit early Sunday morning (July 27), on the company’s second flight in less than 24 hours dedicated to growing its megaconstellation.<\/p>\n

A Falcon 9<\/a> rocket lifted off at 12:31 a.m. EDT (0431 GMT or 9:31 p.m. PDT local on July 26) from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/a> in California. The flight marked the 19th flight for the Falcon’s first stage (B1075), which successfully landed on the “Of Course I Still Love You<\/a>” droneship positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>\n

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The first stage of a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket fires one of its nine engines to land atop an ocean-based droneship in the Pacific Ocean on Sunday, July 27 (Saturday, JUly 26 local time), 2025. (Image credit: SpaceX)<\/p>\n

The rocket’s upper stage propelled the Starlink satellites into space and was on track on deploy the group (no. 17-2<\/a>) about an hour after leaving the ground.<\/p>\n

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The two dispatches in 24 hours increased the total number of active Starlink units in orbit to 8,032, according to satellite tracker<\/a> Jonathan McDowell.<\/p>\n

Sunday morning’s launch marked SpaceX<\/a>‘s 95th mission of 2025, 92 of which were on Falcon 9 rockets. It was the company’s 520th completed mission since 2008.<\/p>\n

Breaking space news, the latest updates on rocket launches, skywatching events and more!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"SpaceX launched 24 more Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit early Sunday morning (July 27), on the company’s…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":96292,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[24],"tags":[159,783,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-96291","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-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114924324334064922","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96291","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=96291"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/96291\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/96292"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=96291"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=96291"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=96291"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}