{"id":9731,"date":"2025-10-07T21:53:26","date_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:53:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-with-a-falcon-9-booster-flying-for-a-29th-time\/"},"modified":"2025-10-07T21:53:26","modified_gmt":"2025-10-07T13:53:26","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-with-a-falcon-9-booster-flying-for-a-29th-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-with-a-falcon-9-booster-flying-for-a-29th-time\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites with a Falcon 9 booster flying for a 29th time"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71088\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71088\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71088\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_11-17_deployment.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_11-17_deployment.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_11-17_deployment-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_11-17_deployment-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_11-17_deployment-678x381.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71088\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX deployed 28 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites (pictured here) at the conclusion of the Starlink 11-17 mission. They launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Oct. 7, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Oct. 8, 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket Tuesday night, which added another 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to its megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-17 mission flew on a south-easterly trajectory upon departure from Vandenberg Space Force Base. Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East happened at 8:54 p.m. PDT (11:54 p.m. EDT \/ 0354 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/uw5KyXwI4O4?si=HT2_6sYfiqiYkktD\" 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 this mission using the Falcon 9 booster with the tail number B1071. This is the second-most flown booster, with this being its 29th flight.<\/p>\n<p>Its previous missions include NASA\u2019s SWOT, five missions for the National Reconnaissance Office and four ride share missions (three Transporter and one Bandwagon).<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1071 performed an autonomous landing on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 156th landing on this vessel and the 516th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX deployed 28 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites (pictured here) at the conclusion of the Starlink 11-17 mission. They launched on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on Oct. 7, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update Oct. 8, 1:05 a.m. EDT (0505 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment [&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":[479,316,440,963],"class_list":["post-9731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-11-17"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731"}],"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=9731"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9731\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}