{"id":9793,"date":"2025-07-27T01:36:57","date_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:36:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-into-a-polar-orbit\/"},"modified":"2025-07-27T01:36:57","modified_gmt":"2025-07-26T17:36:57","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-into-a-polar-orbit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-into-a-polar-orbit\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites into a polar orbit"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70335\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70335\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70335\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250727_Starlink_17-2_streak.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250727_Starlink_17-2_streak.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250727_Starlink_17-2_streak-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250727_Starlink_17-2_streak-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70335\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-2 mission on July 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update July 26, 12:56 a.m.: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying from Vandenberg Space Force Base Saturday night.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 17-2 mission took a southerly trajectory as the rocket soared from Space Launch Complex 4 East. It will deploy the satellites into a polar orbit to bolster internet service in the world\u2019s polar regions.<\/p>\n<p>The Falcon 9 rocket lifted off at &nbsp;9:31 p.m. PDT (12:31 a.m. EDT \/ 0431 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c3fte4TcSC4?si=5e9KJrVMhhnl6JHq\" 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 with the tail number B1075, which made its 19th trip to space and back. Its previous missions included the Transporter-11 rideshare, SARah-2 and 15 batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1075 landed on the droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 positioned in the Pacific Ocean. This was the 142nd landing for this vessel and the 481st booster landing to date for SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>The mission comes as the company readies its third and final, planned astronaut mission of the year, which is set to launch from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center in Florida on Thursday at the earliest. The four members of that mission, dubbed Crew-11, arrived in the Sunshine State Saturday afternoon ahead of a launch rehearsal scheduled for Monday.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70322\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70322\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70322\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250726-DSC_8480_8256-x-5504_JOHN-PISANI-2025_web.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250726-DSC_8480_8256-x-5504_JOHN-PISANI-2025_web.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250726-DSC_8480_8256-x-5504_JOHN-PISANI-2025_web-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/07\/20250726-DSC_8480_8256-x-5504_JOHN-PISANI-2025_web-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70322\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The three astronauts and cosmonaut of the SpaceX Crew-11 mission descend from a Gulfstream jet at Space Florida\u2019s Launch and Landing Facility at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center. From bottom to top: Roscosmos cosmonaut Oleg Platonov, Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), NASA astronaut Mike Fincke and NASA astronaut Zena Cardman. Image: John Pisani\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket streaks across the sky away from Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-2 mission on July 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update July 26, 12:56 a.m.: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship. SpaceX launched another 24 Starlink satellites into low Earth orbit onboard a Falcon 9 rocket flying [&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":[479,316,440,1036],"class_list":["post-9793","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-2"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793"}],"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=9793"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9793\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9793"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9793"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9793"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}