{"id":9571,"date":"2026-04-26T20:18:40","date_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:18:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-flies-25-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-its-50th-falcon-9-launch-of-the-year\/"},"modified":"2026-04-26T20:18:40","modified_gmt":"2026-04-26T12:18:40","slug":"spacex-flies-25-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-its-50th-falcon-9-launch-of-the-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-flies-25-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-its-50th-falcon-9-launch-of-the-year\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX flies 25 Starlink satellites to orbit on its 50th Falcon 9 launch of the year"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73246\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426-Starlink-17-16-Feature-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73246\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426-Starlink-17-16-Feature-Image.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260426-Starlink-17-16-Feature-Image-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Falcon 9 first stage booster B1088 lifts off from Vandenberg with 25 Starlink satellites aboard. Image: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX launched its 50th Falcon 9 rocket of the year from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday, carrying another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet service.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Starlink 17-16 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East occurred under cloudy skies at 7:37 a.m. PDT (10:37 a.m. EDT \/ 14:37 UTC). The rocket carrying 25 of SpaceX\u2019s Starlink V2 Mini broadband internet satellites took a southerly trajectory on departure from the central California coast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/MGjRhVzOiaw\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX used first stage booster B1088 for this mission. It was making its 15th flight following the launches of the NROL-126, Transporter-12, SPHEREx and NROL-57 missions, plus 10 previous batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1088 made an autonomous landing on the SpaceX drone ship, <i>Of Course I Still Love You<\/i>. It was the 193rd landing on this vessel and the 603rd booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX confirmed a successful deployment of the 25 Starlink satellites from the second stage a little over an hour into flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falcon 9 first stage booster B1088 lifts off from Vandenberg with 25 Starlink satellites aboard. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched its 50th Falcon 9 rocket of the year from Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday, carrying another batch of satellites for its Starlink internet service. Liftoff of the Starlink 17-16 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 [&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-9571","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571"}],"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=9571"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9571\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9571"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9571"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9571"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}