{"id":10316,"date":"2023-09-12T21:07:19","date_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:07:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/falcon-9-rocket-launches-another-batch-of-starlink-satellites-from-california\/"},"modified":"2023-09-12T21:07:19","modified_gmt":"2023-09-12T13:07:19","slug":"falcon-9-rocket-launches-another-batch-of-starlink-satellites-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/falcon-9-rocket-launches-another-batch-of-starlink-satellites-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 rocket launches another batch of Starlink satellites from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Updated (4:02 a.m. EDT (0720 UTC) with satellite deploy<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_63652\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63652\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230912-F9-Onboard-Cam-Feature-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-63652\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230912-F9-Onboard-Cam-Feature-Image.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/09\/20230912-F9-Onboard-Cam-Feature-Image-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-63652\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The plumes of the Falcon 9\u2019s Merlin 1D first-stage engines seen from an onboard camera. Image: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX launched another batch of satellites for the company\u2019s Starlink internet service from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:57 p.m. PDT Monday (2:57 a.m. EDT \/ 0657 UTC Tuesday).<\/p>\n<p>The mission, designated Starlink Group 7-2 will place 21 second-generation Starlink satellites into a 185\u00d7178 mile (297\u00d7286 km) orbit inclined at 53 degrees to the equator. This satellite version is known as the V2 Mini and is a condensed version of the full-sized V2 Starlink satellites which are intended to be launched in the future by SpaceX\u2019s fully-reusable Starship vehicle. It will be the 18th launch of the V2 Mini series of satellites.<\/p>\n<p>After lifting off from Vandenberg Space Force Base on a southerly trajectory, the Falcon 9 first stage fired for about two and a half minutes before the second stage took over to complete the climb to orbit. The first stage booster, tail number B1071, is making its 11th flight and headed for a landing on the drone ship \u2018Of Course I still Love You\u2019 stationed about 416 miles (670km) downrange from Vandenberg off the coast of Baja California. The booster touched down about eight and a half minutes after launch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/mNRP1y_IpW4\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The second stage completed its first burn to reach an initial parking orbit shortly after the booster landing. It will then coast for about 45 minutes before a two-second firing to reach the intended orbit. Deployment of the 21 satellites was confirmed by SpaceX about an hour after launch.<\/p>\n<p>Based on statistics compiled by Jonathan McDowell, an astronomer at the Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, who maintains a space flight database, the total number of Starlink satellites launched following this launch stands at 5,091.<\/p>\n<p>In May, SpaceX said it had more than 1.5 million Starlink subscribers. The internet service is available in more than 60 countries.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_60126\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60126\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221214f9swot1-678x313.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\" class=\"size-large wp-image-60126\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221214f9swot1-678x313.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221214f9swot1-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221214f9swot1-768x355.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/12\/20221214f9swot1.jpg 1200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60126\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File photo of a SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket on the launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base, California. Credit: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Updated (4:02 a.m. EDT (0720 UTC) with satellite deploy The plumes of the Falcon 9\u2019s Merlin 1D first-stage engines seen from an onboard camera. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched another batch of satellites for the company\u2019s Starlink internet service from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 11:57 p.m. PDT Monday (2:57 a.m. EDT \/ 0657 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10316","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10316"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10316\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10316"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10316"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10316"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}