{"id":9669,"date":"2025-12-13T20:02:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:02:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-completes-550th-booster-landing-amid-saturday-night-falcon-9-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-12-13T20:02:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-13T12:02:13","slug":"spacex-completes-550th-booster-landing-amid-saturday-night-falcon-9-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-completes-550th-booster-landing-amid-saturday-night-falcon-9-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX completes 550th booster landing amid Saturday night Falcon 9 flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71847\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71847\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71847\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251214_Starlink_15-12_landing.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"379\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251214_Starlink_15-12_landing.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251214_Starlink_15-12_landing-300x168.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71847\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1093, landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 amid the Starlink 15-12 mission. This was the 550th successful landing of a Falcon booster. Image: SpaceX via livestream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX completed its 550th successful booster landing as part of a late night launch from Vandenberg Space Force Station on Saturday.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 15-12 mission added another 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to SpaceX\u2019s growing megaconstellation of broadband internet satellites in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened Dec. 13, at 9:49 p.m. PST (12:49 a.m. EST \/ 0549 UTC on Sunday, Dec. 14). The rocket flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bydgRejCR7c?si=iZj5VwFKx-qHH8cS\" 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 Starlink 15-12 mission using the Falcon 9 first stage booster with the tail number 1093. This was its ninth flight after flying two missions for the Space Development Agency as well as six prior Starlink missions.<\/p>\n<p>About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1093 completed an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 170th landing on this vessel and the 451st landing on a drone ship for SpaceX.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 first stage booster, tail number 1093, landed on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 amid the Starlink 15-12 mission. This was the 550th successful landing of a Falcon booster. Image: SpaceX via livestream SpaceX completed its 550th successful booster landing as part of a late night launch from [&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":[702,479,703,316,440,896],"class_list":["post-9669","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1093","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-15-12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669"}],"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=9669"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9669\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9669"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9669"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9669"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}