{"id":9575,"date":"2026-04-18T18:19:39","date_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:19:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-makes-600th-falcon-booster-landing-during-west-coast-starlink-mission\/"},"modified":"2026-04-18T18:19:39","modified_gmt":"2026-04-18T10:19:39","slug":"spacex-makes-600th-falcon-booster-landing-during-west-coast-starlink-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-makes-600th-falcon-booster-landing-during-west-coast-starlink-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX makes 600th Falcon booster landing during West Coast Starlink mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73061\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73061\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73061\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260329_20260313_Starlink_G17_31.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260329_20260313_Starlink_G17_31.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/20260329_20260313_Starlink_G17_31-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73061\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the Starlink 17-31 mission on March 13, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX completed its 600th Falcon booster landing during a Starlink mission Sunday. The Falcon 9 rocket departed Vandenberg Space Force Base on a south-southwesterly trajectory at 9:03:09 a.m. PDT (12:03:09 pm EDT \/ 1603:09 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-22 mission added another 25 broadband internet satellites into the company\u2019s low Earth orbit constellation that consists of more than 10,200 spacecraft.<\/p>\n<p>A launch attempt on Saturday was postponed. SpaceX typically does not explain the cause of such delays.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/d0QZqmfs4LA?si=wFVYhYGqhrAopnh2\" 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 used Falcon 9 first stage booster B1097, which was flying for a seventh time. It previously launched Sentinel-6B, Twilight, and five previous batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>A little more eight minutes after liftoff, B1097 landed on the SpaceX drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 It was the 191st landing on this vessel.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File: SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket stands at Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base ahead of the Starlink 17-31 mission on March 13, 2026. Image: SpaceX SpaceX completed its 600th Falcon booster landing during a Starlink mission Sunday. The Falcon 9 rocket departed Vandenberg Space Force Base on a south-southwesterly trajectory at [&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":[479,703,683,316,440,775],"class_list":["post-9575","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-22"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575"}],"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=9575"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9575\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9575"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9575"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9575"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}