{"id":9677,"date":"2025-12-07T23:04:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:04:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb\/"},"modified":"2025-12-07T23:04:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-07T15:04:03","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71742\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71742\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71742\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_Starlink_11-15_liftoff_SpaceX.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"452\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_Starlink_11-15_liftoff_SpaceX.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/12\/20251207_Starlink_11-15_liftoff_SpaceX-300x200.jpeg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71742\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the Starlink 11-15 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 7, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Dec. 7, 3 p.m. EST (2000 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX closed out the weekend with a mid-morning Falcon 9 rocket launch from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-15 mission added another 28 broadband internet satellites to its massive low Earth orbit constellation. This was SpaceX\u2019s 115th launch of Starlink satellites so far in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 9:58 a.m. PST (12:58 p.m. EST \/ 1758 UTC). The rocket flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon leaving the launch pad.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/bjMWs_W_WKM?si=8h0_uiOTLtCJD936\" 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 booster with the tail number 1088. This was its 12th flight following the launches of NASA\u2019s SPHEREx, Transporter-12 and two missions for the National Reconnaissance Office (NROL-57 and NROL-126).<\/p>\n<p>About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1088 performed an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This marked the 168th booster landing on this vessel and the 545th booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX has another launch scheduled for later in the day on Sunday from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. That mission will feature the 3,000th Starlink satellite launched in 2025.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off on the Starlink 11-15 mission from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Dec. 7, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update Dec. 7, 3 p.m. EST (2000 UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites. SpaceX closed out the weekend with a mid-morning Falcon 9 [&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":[796,479,703,316,440,911],"class_list":["post-9677","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1088","tag-falcon-9","tag-ocisly","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-11-15"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677"}],"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=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}