{"id":9829,"date":"2025-06-04T22:15:21","date_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:15:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-500th-orbital-falcon-rocket-on-15th-anniversary-of-the-falcon-9\/"},"modified":"2025-06-04T22:15:21","modified_gmt":"2025-06-04T14:15:21","slug":"spacex-launches-500th-orbital-falcon-rocket-on-15th-anniversary-of-the-falcon-9","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-500th-orbital-falcon-rocket-on-15th-anniversary-of-the-falcon-9\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 500th orbital Falcon rocket on 15th anniversary of the Falcon 9"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69894\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69894\" style=\"width: 678px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69894\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250604-Starlink-11-22-Launch-Feature-Image.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250604-Starlink-11-22-Launch-Feature-Image.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/06\/20250604-Starlink-11-22-Launch-Feature-Image-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 678px) 100vw, 678px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69894\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A Falcon 9 rocket liftoff off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 4, 2025, carrying 27 Starlink satellites. It was the 500th orbital launch of a rocket in SpaceX\u2019s Falcon family. Image: SpaceX.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update June 4, 8:00 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed on the droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX was back at the launch pad for a midweek flight from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California. The Starlink 11-22 mission marked the company\u2019s 500th orbital launch of a Falcon rocket, including Falcon 1, Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 4 East occurred at 4:40 p.m. PDT (7:40 p.m. EDT, 2340 UTC) on Wednesday, which also happens to be the 15th anniversary of the first Falcon 9 rocket launch.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/AyLnWHq2vzA?si=_hyv7NBLdpjBAoP4\" 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\u2019s year so far has been highlighted once again by missions supporting its Starlink constellation. This was its 50th such launch in 2025.<\/p>\n<p>The Wednesday mission was also the 26th flight for Falcon 9 first stage booster tail number B1063. It previously launched a trio of missions for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA\u2019s DART spacecraft and 17 batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1063 landed on the droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This completed the 134th landing on this vessel and the 457th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Falcon 9 rocket liftoff off from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on June 4, 2025, carrying 27 Starlink satellites. It was the 500th orbital launch of a rocket in SpaceX\u2019s Falcon family. Image: SpaceX. Update June 4, 8:00 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed on the droneship. SpaceX was back at the launch pad for [&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":[479,316,440,1091],"class_list":["post-9829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-11-22"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829"}],"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=9829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}