{"id":9747,"date":"2025-09-17T00:04:36","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:04:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-from-california-following-back-to-back-weather-scrubs\/"},"modified":"2025-09-17T00:04:36","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T16:04:36","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-from-california-following-back-to-back-weather-scrubs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-from-california-following-back-to-back-weather-scrubs\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites from California following back-to-back weather scrubs"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70936\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70936\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70936\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_Starlink_17-12_launch.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"504\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_Starlink_17-12_launch.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_Starlink_17-12_launch-300x173.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250919_Starlink_17-12_launch-768x442.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70936\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-12 mission on Sept. 19, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Sept. 19, 3 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update Sept. 18, 12:09 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the mission and is targeting launch on Sept. 19.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Update Sept. 17, 6:15 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the launch due to weather. It\u2019s now targeting launch on Sept. 18.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Following a pair of weather-related scrubs, SpaceX launched its latest batch of 24 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into a polar, low Earth orbit.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket blasted off from pad 4E at Vandenberg Space Force Base Friday, Sept. 19, at 9:31 a.m. PDT (12:31 p.m. EDT \/ 1631 UTC). The Starlink 17-12 mission was the 84th mission supporting SpaceX\u2019s megaconstellation in 2025, following the launch of <span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Starlink 10-61 mission<\/strong><\/span>&nbsp;on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>Thunder was heard in the vicinity of the launch pad at Vandenberg Space Force Base in the final minute of the countdown on Wednesday and weather appears to have scrubbed the mission again on Thursday, prior to fueling.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThis is SpaceX launch director on Countdown 1. Hold, hold, hold,\u201d the launch director stated in the final minute of the count on Wednesday. \u201cWe\u2019re standing down due to weather being no-go.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/pvSh_oSwfd0?si=6saUpsYUXDWq2ihx\" 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 used the Falcon 9 first stage booster, B1088, to launch the mission, which was its 10th flight. Its previous flights included NASA\u2019s SPHEREx rideshare, the Transporter-12 rideshare and two missions for the National Reconnaissance Office.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after taking off from the California coast, SpaceX landed B1088 on the drone ship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This was the 152nd landing on this vessel and the 507th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>So far in 2025, SpaceX has launched more than 2,000 Starlink V2 Mini satellites. As it continues development of its Starship rocket, SpaceX plans to start deploying the significantly larger Starlink Version 3 satellites beginning in 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-12 mission on Sept. 19, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update Sept. 19, 3 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirmed deployment of the satellites. Update Sept. 18, 12:09 p.m. EDT: SpaceX scrubbed the mission and is targeting launch [&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":[479,316,440,982],"class_list":["post-9747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-12"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747"}],"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=9747"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9747\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}