{"id":9546,"date":"2026-05-30T22:17:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:17:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-50th-starlink-mission-of-2026\/"},"modified":"2026-05-30T22:17:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-30T14:17:11","slug":"spacex-launches-50th-starlink-mission-of-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-50th-starlink-mission-of-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 50th Starlink mission of 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73535\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73535\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73535\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260530_Starlink_17-41_liftoff_SpaceX-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260530_Starlink_17-41_liftoff_SpaceX-1.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260530_Starlink_17-41_liftoff_SpaceX-1-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73535\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Station on the Starlink 17-41 mission on May 30, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update May 30, 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of 2026 with a Falcon 9 launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Saturday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-41 mission added another 24 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation. It consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft in orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 8:25 a.m. PDT (11:25 a.m. EDT \/ 1525 UTC). The rocket will fly on a south-southwesterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tH0RDIF93xo?si=Ii5HYhVTOzkwe8Td\" 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 using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1082. This was its 22nd flight after launching missions, like USSF-62, NROL-145, and OneWeb Launch 20.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1082 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 199th landing on this vessel and the 617th booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Station on the Starlink 17-41 mission on May 30, 2026. Image: SpaceX Update May 30, 1:30 p.m. EDT (1730 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched its 50th dedicated Starlink mission of 2026 with [&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":[479,703,683,316,440,723],"class_list":["post-9546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-41"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546"}],"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=9546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}