{"id":9530,"date":"2026-06-20T23:02:31","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:02:31","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T23:02:31","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:02:31","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73713\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73713\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73713\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260621-Starlink-17-28-Launch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260621-Starlink-17-28-Launch.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/20260621-Starlink-17-28-Launch-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73713\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Starlink 17-28 mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 21, 2026. Image: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:39:06 a.m. PDT (12:39:06 p.m. EDT \/ 1639:06 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>The Father\u2019s Day flight added another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation. It was the 72nd Falcon 9 launch of the year and flew a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/CAEyLIkDdFc?si=PzGNyuI3dhuZw0p-\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the mission atop one of its most heavily used Falcon 9 boosters, B1063 making its 33rd flight after launching missions, including NASA\u2019s DART, Transporter-7, and Iridium OneWeb.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1063 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019, positioned in the Pacific Ocean. It was the 204th landing on this vessel and the 627th booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starlink 17-28 mission lifts off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 21, 2026. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched another batch of Starlink satellites on a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California at 9:39:06 a.m. PDT (12:39:06 p.m. EDT \/ 1639:06 UTC). The Father\u2019s Day flight added another 24 [&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":[681,479,682,683,316,440,684],"class_list":["post-9530","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1063","tag-falcon-9","tag-slc-4e","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-28"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530"}],"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=9530"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9530\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9530"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9530"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9530"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}