{"id":9887,"date":"2025-03-26T17:24:01","date_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-27-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb\/"},"modified":"2025-03-26T17:24:01","modified_gmt":"2025-03-26T09:24:01","slug":"spacex-launches-27-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-27-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-vandenberg-sfb\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 27 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Vandenberg SFB"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_69118\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-69118\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-69118\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326_Starlink_11-7_liftoff-SpaceX_small.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"502\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326_Starlink_11-7_liftoff-SpaceX_small.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326_Starlink_11-7_liftoff-SpaceX_small-300x172.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326_Starlink_11-7_liftoff-SpaceX_small-678x389.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/03\/20250326_Starlink_11-7_liftoff-SpaceX_small-768x440.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-69118\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) to begin the Starlink 11-7 mission with 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites onboard. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>SpaceX sent a batch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket launch Wednesday afternoon. The flight tied the record for the most number of these types of satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California to date.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-7 mission lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East is scheduled for 3:11 p.m. PDT (6:11 p.m. EDT, 2211 UTC). This was the 11th orbital launch from VSFB so far this year.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/iDSDSHga3fw?si=3K28HYA8iw3vXOtk\" 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 B1063 in the SpaceX fleet, launched for a 24th time. This made it the second most flown booster, following B1067, which safely launched and landed 26 times so far.<\/p>\n<p>The previous missions launched by B1063 include three missions for the National Reconnaissance Office, NASA\u2019s Double Asteroid Redirection Test (DART) spacecraft an 15 other Starlink missions. A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1063 landed on the droneship, \u2018Of Course I Still Love You.\u2019<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX aims to certify its boosters and payload fairings for up to 40 flights each.<\/p>\n<p>The number of Starlink V2 Mini satellites on board the Starlink 11-7 mission suggest that some or all of these are what SpaceX calls its Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites in a progress report published at the end of 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The report stated that these 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<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 11-8 mission in mid-January may have had the first number of the Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites onboard, though this wasn\u2019t specified by SpaceX. This was, however, the first time SpaceX launched a batch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites from either California or Florida.<\/p>\n<p>Starlink 11-7 was just the second time that SpaceX has 27 of these satellites onboard a single Falcon 9 rocket launch. Both launches took off from Vandenberg Space Force Base.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 4 East (SLC-4E) to begin the Starlink 11-7 mission with 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites onboard. Image: SpaceX SpaceX sent a batch of 27 Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit on a Falcon 9 rocket launch Wednesday afternoon. The flight tied the [&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":[479,316,440,1157,1122],"class_list":["post-9887","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-11-7","tag-starlink-v2-mini-optimized"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887"}],"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=9887"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9887\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9887"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9887"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9887"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}