{"id":9605,"date":"2026-02-27T22:49:35","date_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:49:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-launches-from-cape-canaveral-with-29-starlink-satellites\/"},"modified":"2026-02-27T22:49:35","modified_gmt":"2026-02-27T14:49:35","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-launches-from-cape-canaveral-with-29-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-launches-from-cape-canaveral-with-29-starlink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 launches from Cape Canaveral with 29 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_72694\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72694\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260227-Starlink-6-108-Pad-Camera-Fog.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72694\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260227-Starlink-6-108-Pad-Camera-Fog.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260227-Starlink-6-108-Pad-Camera-Fog-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72694\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Starlink 6-108 mission lifts off from a fog-shrouded pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>\nSpaceX launched another 29 satellites for its Starlink internet service just after sunrise on Friday at fog shrouded Cape Canaveral.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 occurred at 7:16:10 a.m. EST (1216:10 UTC), but views of the launch were obscured by a thick blanket of fog. SpaceX confirmed a successful deployment of the satellites about an hour after launch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/ZOLTxDjlPts\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>After sending the second stage on its way with its stack of Starlink V2 Mini satellites, Falcon 9 first stage booster B1069, landed on the drone ship \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas\u2019 stationed in the Atlantic east of The Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>It was the 30th flight for this booster, which entered the SpaceX fleet for the CRS-24 space station cargo flight in December 2021. B1069 was badly damaged during the landing on that inaugural mission and didn\u2019t fly again until August 2022. Since that troubled start, it has made 25 Starlink delivery runs and also launched the Eutelsat HOTBIRD 13-F, OneWeb 1, SES-18 and SES-19 missions.<\/p>\n<p>Friday\u2019s mission was be SpaceX\u2019s 25th Falcon 9 launch of the year and the 607th Falcon 9 flight since the rocket was introduced in 2010.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Starlink 6-108 mission lifts off from a fog-shrouded pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida. Image: SpaceX. SpaceX launched another 29 satellites for its Starlink internet service just after sunrise on Friday at fog shrouded Cape Canaveral. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 occurred at 7:16:10 a.m. EST (1216:10 UTC), but [&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":[760,479,779,675,676,316,440,814],"class_list":["post-9605","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1069","tag-falcon-9","tag-jrti","tag-slc-40","tag-sld-45","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-6-108"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605"}],"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=9605"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9605\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9605"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9605"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9605"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}