{"id":9862,"date":"2025-04-30T00:39:50","date_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-23-starlink-satellites-on-50th-falcon-9-rocket-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-04-30T00:39:50","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T16:39:50","slug":"spacex-launches-23-starlink-satellites-on-50th-falcon-9-rocket-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-23-starlink-satellites-on-50th-falcon-9-rocket-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 23 Starlink satellites on 50th Falcon 9 rocket of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69486\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69486\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69486\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250428_Starlink_12-10_liftoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250428_Starlink_12-10_liftoff.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250428_Starlink_12-10_liftoff-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250428_Starlink_12-10_liftoff-678x452.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250428_Starlink_12-10_liftoff-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 12-10 mission on Monday, April 28, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update 11:05 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX completed its second Falcon 9 rocket launch in less than half a day. The Starlink 12-10 mission took flight from NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center about six hours after another Starlink flight took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Launch Complex 39A happened at 10:34 p.m. EDT (0234 UTC). This was SpaceX\u2019s 50th Falcon 9 launch of the year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7gwj-qGRu5s?si=XvoXjf1ZP7wlTyLf\" 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>On Sunday, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 75 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window. Meteorologists said they were tracking potential concerns with violations of the Cumulus Cloud and the Anvil Cloud Rules.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe main weather threats for the primary launch opportunity are cumulus clouds associated with nearby showers and any lingering anvil clouds from remnant thunderstorms,\u201d launch weather officers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX debuted a new booster for this mission. It\u2019s believed to either bear the tail number of B1091 or B1094, but it wasn\u2019t clear prior to launch which one was in the loop.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, the booster landed on the droneship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas.\u2019 This marked the 106th booster landing on that droneship and the 439th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A (LC-39A) at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center to begin the Starlink 12-10 mission on Monday, April 28, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now Update 11:05 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship. SpaceX completed its second Falcon 9 rocket launch in less [&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":[479,316,440,1126],"class_list":["post-9862","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-12-10"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862"}],"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=9862"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9862\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9862"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9862"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9862"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}