{"id":9589,"date":"2026-03-20T19:38:32","date_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:38:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb\/"},"modified":"2026-03-20T19:38:32","modified_gmt":"2026-03-20T11:38:32","slug":"spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71082\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71082\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71082\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Falcon-9_sunset.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Falcon-9_sunset.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Falcon-9_sunset-300x138.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Falcon-9_sunset-768x354.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71082\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update March 20, 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched its 30th batch of Starlink satellites this year with a Friday afternoon launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 2:51:49 p.m. PDT (5:51:49 p.m. EDT \/ 2151:49 UTC). The rocket will fly on a southerly trajectory upon leaving the launch pad. The Starlink 17-15 mission carried 25 Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites to low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/gjqKDBuQS-A\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number B1100. This was its fourth launch after previously flying the NROL-105 mission and two batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1100 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 185th landing on this vessel and the 589th booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket stands in launch position at Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base at sunset. Image: SpaceX Update March 20, 6:14 p.m. EDT (2214 UTC): SpaceX adjusted the T-0 liftoff time. SpaceX launched its 30th batch of Starlink satellites this year with a Friday afternoon launch [&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":[479,703,683,316,440,791],"class_list":["post-9589","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589"}],"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=9589"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9589\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}