{"id":9636,"date":"2026-01-25T17:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-to-polar-low-earth-orbit\/"},"modified":"2026-01-25T17:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-01-25T09:55:30","slug":"spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-to-polar-low-earth-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-25-starlink-satellites-to-polar-low-earth-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 25 Starlink satellites to polar, low Earth orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_72423\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-72423\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-72423\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260125_Starlink_17-20_liftoff-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"398\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260125_Starlink_17-20_liftoff-1.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/01\/20260125_Starlink_17-20_liftoff-1-300x176.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-72423\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2026, to begin the Starlink 17-20 mission. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX launched 25 of its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-20 mission sent the broadband satellites into a polar low Earth orbit. The Falcon 9 rocket flew on a southerly trajectory upon leaving Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 9:30 a.m. PST (12:30 p.m. EST \/ 1730 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/hJviIbHNKy8?si=pgSUOHIv5duQBM7h\" 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 1097. This was its sixth flight after launching Sentinel-6B, the Twilight ride share and three batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1097 landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 173rd landing on this vessel and the 563rd booster landing for SpaceX to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sunday, Jan. 26, 2026, to begin the Starlink 17-20 mission. Image: SpaceX SpaceX launched 25 of its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites from California on Sunday morning. The Starlink 17-20 mission sent the broadband satellites into [&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":[715,479,703,683,316,440,844],"class_list":["post-9636","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1097","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-sld-30","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-20"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636"}],"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=9636"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9636\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9636"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9636"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9636"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}