{"id":9578,"date":"2026-04-15T17:44:05","date_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:44:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/west-coast-spacex-falcon-9-mission-launches-25-starlink-satellites\/"},"modified":"2026-04-15T17:44:05","modified_gmt":"2026-04-15T09:44:05","slug":"west-coast-spacex-falcon-9-mission-launches-25-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/west-coast-spacex-falcon-9-mission-launches-25-starlink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"West Coast SpaceX Falcon 9 mission launches 25 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_73142\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-73142\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-73142\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414-Falcon-9-File.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414-Falcon-9-File.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/04\/20260414-Falcon-9-File-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-73142\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. File Photo: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Tuesday night. The rocket carryied another 25 satellites for its Starlink internet service.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 9:29:49 p.m. PDT (12:29:49 a.m. EDT \/ 04:29:49 UTC). The Falcon 9 departed from the central California coast on a southerly trajectory, targeting an orbit of 258 x 246 km, with a 97-degree inclination.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/wjcQZHk7p1o\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-27 mission was SpaceX\u2019s 46th Falcon 9 launch of the year and used a first-stage booster making its 21st flight. Booster B1082 entered the SpaceX fleet in January 2024 and has already launched 17 previous Starlink delivery missions. It also flew the USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20, and NROL-145 missions.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the first stage landedon the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. The 25 Starlink V2 Mini satellites stacked atop the second stage deployed about an hour into flight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Falcon 9 rocket stands poised to launch from the Space Launch Complex 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. File Photo: SpaceX SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California Tuesday night. The rocket carryied another 25 satellites for its Starlink internet service. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex [&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-9578","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578"}],"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=9578"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9578\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9578"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9578"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9578"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}