{"id":9840,"date":"2025-05-26T21:05:58","date_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:05:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-to-polar-orbit-from-california\/"},"modified":"2025-05-26T21:05:58","modified_gmt":"2025-05-26T13:05:58","slug":"spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-to-polar-orbit-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-24-starlink-satellites-to-polar-orbit-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 24 Starlink satellites to polar orbit from California"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69797\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69797\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69797\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250527_Starlink_11-17_liftoff_SpaceX.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250527_Starlink_11-17_liftoff_SpaceX.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250527_Starlink_11-17_liftoff_SpaceX-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250527_Starlink_11-17_liftoff_SpaceX-678x452.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/05\/20250527_Starlink_11-17_liftoff_SpaceX-768x512.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69797\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-1 mission on May 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update May 27, 2:09 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched Starlink satellites into a polar orbit for the first time since 2023 during a Monday morning flight from California. The mission, dubbed Starlink 17-1, sent 24 of the broadband internet satellites into low Earth orbit at a 97 degree inclination.<\/p>\n<p>Launch teams conducted a liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 9:57 a.m. PDT (12:57 p.m. EDT, 1657 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yxQyNozzRR0\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX used Falcon 9 booster, tail number 1082, to launch this mission, which made its 13th flight. Its previously flew NROl-145, USSF-62, OneWeb Launch 20 and nine other batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1082 landed on the droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019 This became the 132nd touchdown on this vessel and the 452nd booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX rarely launches Starlink satellites into a polar orbit. Out of the more than 260 Starlink missions so far, the company has sent Starlink satellites in a 97.6 degree inclination just five previous times:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Jul. 11, 2022 \u2013 Starlink 3-1<\/li>\n<li>Jul. 22, 2022 \u2013 Starlink 3-2<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 12, 2022 \u2013 Starlink 3-3<\/li>\n<li>Aug. 31, 2022 \u2013 Starlink 3-4<\/li>\n<li>Apr. 27, 2023 \u2013 Starlink 3-5<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The first two Transporter rideshare missions also sent Starlink satellites into a polar orbit. There were 10 that flew on Transporter-1 in January 2021 and three on Transporter-2 in June 2021, both of which went to a 97.5 degree inclination.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base on the Starlink 17-1 mission on May 27, 2025. Image: SpaceX Update May 27, 2:09 p.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 24 Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched Starlink satellites into a polar orbit for the first time [&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":[479,316,440,1101],"class_list":["post-9840","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-17-1"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840"}],"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=9840"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9840\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9840"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9840"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9840"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}