{"id":9667,"date":"2025-12-15T01:42:45","date_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:42:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/falcon-9-launch-of-29-starlink-satellites-from-the-kennedy-space-center-delayed-to-wednesday\/"},"modified":"2025-12-15T01:42:45","modified_gmt":"2025-12-14T17:42:45","slug":"falcon-9-launch-of-29-starlink-satellites-from-the-kennedy-space-center-delayed-to-wednesday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/falcon-9-launch-of-29-starlink-satellites-from-the-kennedy-space-center-delayed-to-wednesday\/","title":{"rendered":"Falcon 9 launch of 29 Starlink satellites from the Kennedy Space Center delayed to Wednesday"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71831\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71831\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71831\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250827_Starlink_10_11_30.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"313\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250827_Starlink_10_11_30.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20250827_Starlink_10_11_30-300x138.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71831\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the first stage booster, 1067, stands at Launch Complex 39A on Aug. 27, 2025, ahead of the 30th flight of this booster. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Dec. 15, 4:45 p.m. EST (2145 UTC): SpaceX delayed the launch to NET Wednesday, Dec. 17<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX delayed the launch of a Falcon 9 rocket from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center to Wednesday after originally targeting a liftoff on Monday. The Starlink 6-99 mission will add another 29 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to SpaceX\u2019s broadband internet constellation in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX did not offer an explanation for the two days of delay. Liftoff winds were expected to be an issue at the opening of the original launch window on Monday. In addition, booster recovery weather was listed as a low to moderate risk. When it does launch, the Falcon 9 rocket will fly on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff is now planned for no sooner than 7:19 a.m. EST (1219 UTC) on Wednesday. Spaceflight Now will have live coverage beginning about an hour prior to liftoff.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HN03q45_ffo?si=79HghyvHHTcSU1Xz\" 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 will launch the mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number 1094. This will be its sixth flight following the launches of missions like Crew-11, Ax-4 and Cygnus NG-23.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1094 will target an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions,\u2019 positioned in the Atlantic Ocean to the east of the Bahamas. This will be the 146th landing on this vessel and the 552nd booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>File: A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket with the first stage booster, 1067, stands at Launch Complex 39A on Aug. 27, 2025, ahead of the 30th flight of this booster. Image: SpaceX Update Dec. 15, 4:45 p.m. EST (2145 UTC): SpaceX delayed the launch to NET Wednesday, Dec. 17 SpaceX delayed the launch of a Falcon [&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":[479,779,766,316,440,890],"class_list":["post-9667","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-jrti","tag-lc-39a","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-6-99"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667"}],"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=9667"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9667\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9667"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9667"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9667"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}