{"id":9618,"date":"2026-02-14T21:48:55","date_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:48:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-600th-falcon-9-rocket-to-date-with-starlink-flight-from-vandenberg\/"},"modified":"2026-02-14T21:48:55","modified_gmt":"2026-02-14T13:48:55","slug":"spacex-launches-600th-falcon-9-rocket-to-date-with-starlink-flight-from-vandenberg","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-600th-falcon-9-rocket-to-date-with-starlink-flight-from-vandenberg\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 600th Falcon 9 rocket to date with Starlink flight from Vandenberg"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72585\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72585\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72585\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260214_Starlin_17-13_SpaceX.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260214_Starlin_17-13_SpaceX.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/02\/20260214_Starlin_17-13_SpaceX-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72585\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A long-exposure streak shot of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket soaring away from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-13 mission on Feb. 14, 2026. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Feb. 14, 10:45 p.m. EST (0345 UTC): SpaceX deployed the 24 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX continued its busy weekend with the launch of its 600th Falcon 9 rocket to date. The milestone mission comes hours after its Dragon spacecraft arrived at the International Space Station as part of its 20th human spaceflight mission.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-13 mission launched Saturday evening from Vandenberg Space Force Base. It sent 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 5:59:59 p.m. PST (8:59:59 p.m. EST \/ 0159:59 UTC), at the end of the launch window. The rocket flew on a southerly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ftkae669T2w?si=PFkJ4-AjJL7S1dsM\" 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 launched the mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1081. This was its 22nd flight after launching four missions for NASA (Crew-7, CRS-29, PACE, and TRACERS) among others.<\/p>\n<p>More than eight minutes after liftoff, B1081 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 178th landing on this vessel and the 571st booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>Earlier in the day, SpaceX\u2019s Crew Dragon spacecraft named Freedom arrived at the ISS at 3:15 p.m. EST (2015 UTC). The orbital arrival of three astronauts and one cosmonaut came roughly 34 hours after launching from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A long-exposure streak shot of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket soaring away from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-13 mission on Feb. 14, 2026. Image: SpaceX Update Feb. 14, 10:45 p.m. EST (0345 UTC): SpaceX deployed the 24 Starlink satellites. SpaceX continued its busy weekend with the 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":[479,703,682,683,316,440,829],"class_list":["post-9618","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-slc-4e","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-13"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618"}],"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=9618"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9618\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9618"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9618"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9618"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}