{"id":9883,"date":"2025-03-29T20:01:49","date_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:01:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-v2-mini-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/"},"modified":"2025-03-29T20:01:49","modified_gmt":"2025-03-29T12:01:49","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-v2-mini-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-v2-mini-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69169\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69169\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69169\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250331_Starlink_6-80_liftoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"406\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250331_Starlink_6-80_liftoff.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250331_Starlink_6-80_liftoff-300x139.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250331_Starlink_6-80_liftoff-678x314.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250331_Starlink_6-80_liftoff-768x356.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69169\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-80 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update March 31, 4:40 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>A day after poor weather prevented a Sunday flight, SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket on Monday afternoon with a batch of 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites.<\/p>\n<p>Liftoff of the Starlink 6-80 mission from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station happened at 3:52 p.m. EDT (1952 UTC) on Monday, March 31.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/awX4eFyWawA?si=kytduMSlE0MQR_eH\" 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, tail number B1080, to launch the Starlink 6-80 mission. It will be making its 17th launch after supporting four missions to the International Space Station, the European Space Agency\u2019s (ESA) Euclid observatory and 10 previous Starlink flights.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1080 landed on the droneship \u2018Just Read the Instructions\u2019. This marked the 113th booster landing on this droneship and the 424th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_69138\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69138\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69138\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_Starlink_11-7_satellites.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"627\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_Starlink_11-7_satellites.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_Starlink_11-7_satellites-300x215.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_Starlink_11-7_satellites-678x485.jpg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250329_Starlink_11-7_satellites-768x550.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69138\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">File: A batch of what are likely Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites onboard a Falcon 9 rocket\u2019s upper stage prior to deployment during the Starlink 11-7 mission. Image: SpaceX via livestream<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>On board the rocket are 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites, which represented the largest batch of this type of satellite to fly on one mission. The previous record was 27 satellites on the Starlink 11-8 and Starlink 11-7 missions.<\/p>\n<p>In its 2024 progress report, the company said the Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites include a Doppio Dualband antenna along with \u201cupgraded avionics, propulsion, and power systems, and are mass optimized for Falcon 9 to allow up to 29 satellites to launch on each mission \u2013 six more satellites per launch than the original V2 Mini design.\u201d With this upcoming launch, SpaceX will be close to reaching that goal. Much larger Starlink V3 satellites will debut once the company\u2019s 400-foot-tall Starship rocket is capable of sending payloads to orbit.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 6-80 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now Update March 31, 4:40 p.m. EDT: SpaceX landed the first stage booster on the droneship. A day after poor weather prevented a Sunday flight, SpaceX launched [&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":[479,316,440,1155,1122],"class_list":["post-9883","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-6-80","tag-starlink-v2-mini-optimized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883"}],"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=9883"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9883\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9883"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9883"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9883"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}