{"id":9880,"date":"2025-04-01T23:36:34","date_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:36:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-thursday-night-for-falcon-9-launch-with-27-starlink-satellites\/"},"modified":"2025-04-01T23:36:34","modified_gmt":"2025-04-01T15:36:34","slug":"spacex-launches-thursday-night-for-falcon-9-launch-with-27-starlink-satellites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-thursday-night-for-falcon-9-launch-with-27-starlink-satellites\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Thursday night for Falcon 9 launch with 27 Starlink satellites"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69228\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69228\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69228\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250403_Starlink_11-13.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250403_Starlink_11-13.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250403_Starlink_11-13-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250403_Starlink_11-13-678x381.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/04\/20250403_Starlink_11-13-768x432.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69228\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A stack of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites drifts away from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s second stage to conclude the Starlink 11-13 mission. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update April 3, 9:52 p.m. EDT: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday night after standing down on Tuesday due to weather. The mission, dubbed Starlink 11-13, delivered &nbsp;27 more Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit and will be the 25th Starlink flight of the year.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base at 6:02 p.m. PDT (9:02 p.m. EDT, 0102 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/GZCJsfI0uLc?si=MF9l2a_Uz_GQQlnx\" 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>The Falcon 9 first stage booster supporting this mission, tail number B1088 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for a fifth time. It previously supported the launches of NASA\u2019s SPHEREx and PUNCH rideshare mission, NROL-57, NROL-126 and the Transporter-12 smallsat rideshare flight.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1088 will target a landing on the droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You,\u2019 which is positioned in the Pacific Ocean. If successful, this was the 123rd booster landing on OCISLY and the 426th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A stack of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites drifts away from the SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s second stage to conclude the Starlink 11-13 mission. Image: SpaceX Update April 3, 9:52 p.m. EDT: The Falcon 9 booster landed on the droneship. SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket launch Thursday night after standing down on Tuesday due [&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":[479,316,440,1148,1149],"class_list":["post-9880","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-11-13","tag-starlink-v2-mini"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880"}],"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=9880"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9880\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9880"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9880"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9880"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}