{"id":9558,"date":"2026-05-20T22:43:53","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:43:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-launch-from-vandenberg-sfb\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T22:43:53","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T14:43:53","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-launch-from-vandenberg-sfb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-launch-from-vandenberg-sfb\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg SFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73426\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73426\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73426\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260519_Starlink_17-42_liftoff_SpaceX.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"356\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260519_Starlink_17-42_liftoff_SpaceX.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/20260519_Starlink_17-42_liftoff_SpaceX-300x158.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73426\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-42 mission on May 19, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update May 20, 12 a.m. EDT (0400 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday night to send a batch of its Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-42, added another 24 broadband internet satellites to a constellation of spacecraft that consists of more than 10,000 spacecraft. More than 600 of those satellites support direct-to-device capabilities.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 7:46 p.m. PDT (10:46 p.m. EDT \/ 0246 UTC). The rocket flew 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\/DBcldGapcYs?si=q5jRVZHUL2Sjvr-G\" 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 B1103. This was its second launch after flying the Starlink 17-35 mission on April 6.<\/p>\n<p>The booster was previously assigned to the NROL-172 mission, but was swapped for B1097 prior to launch. SpaceX didn\u2019t offer an explanation for the swap.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1103 landed on the drone ship \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 197th landing on this vessel and the 612th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-42 mission on May 19, 2026. Image: SpaceX Update May 20, 12 a.m. EDT (0400 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched its Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base Tuesday [&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":[741,479,703,683,316,440,742],"class_list":["post-9558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1103","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-42"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9558"}],"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=9558"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9558\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}