{"id":9922,"date":"2025-02-03T01:07:30","date_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:07:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-21-starlink-satellites-on-foggy-tuesday-morning\/"},"modified":"2025-02-03T01:07:30","modified_gmt":"2025-02-02T17:07:30","slug":"spacex-launches-21-starlink-satellites-on-foggy-tuesday-morning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-21-starlink-satellites-on-foggy-tuesday-morning\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 21 Starlink satellites on foggy Tuesday morning"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_68650\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68650\" style=\"width: 584px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68650\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_Starlink_12-3_streak.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"584\" height=\"876\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_Starlink_12-3_streak.jpeg 584w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250204_Starlink_12-3_streak-200x300.jpeg 200w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 584px) 100vw, 584px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68650\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Blanketed by early morning fog, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 12-3 mission on Feb. 4, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update 5:42 a.m. EST (1042 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on its droneship.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>Against a densely foggy backdrop, SpaceX completed its second Starlink launch of the month, this one from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 12-3 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) was SpaceX\u2019s 230th orbital launch from that pad. Liftoff happened at 5:15 a.m. EST (1015 UTC) on Tuesday.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yS5DIB8Zlz0?si=nDP3TU-l16QLYqFH\" 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 1069 on this mission, launched for a 21st time. It was previously used on missions like CRS-24, Eutelsat Hotbird-F1 and 16 Starlink flights.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1069 landed on the SpaceX droneship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions,\u2019 marking the 108th booster landing on JRTI and the 404th landing to date.<\/p>\n<p>Onboard the rocket are 21 Starlink satellites, of which 13 have Direct to Cell capabilities.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_68662\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-68662\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-68662\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250202_Starlink_12_3_small.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"404\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250202_Starlink_12_3_small.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250202_Starlink_12_3_small-300x138.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250202_Starlink_12_3_small-678x313.jpeg 678w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/02\/20250202_Starlink_12_3_small-768x354.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-68662\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A batch of 21 Starlink V2 Mini satellites pictured above Earth prior to their deployment on the Starlink 12-3 mission on Feb. 2, 2025. Image: SpaceX<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Blanketed by early morning fog, a SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket takes off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on the Starlink 12-3 mission on Feb. 4, 2025. Image: Adam Bernstein\/Spaceflight Now Update 5:42 a.m. EST (1042 UTC): SpaceX landed the first stage booster on its droneship. Against a densely foggy backdrop, SpaceX completed its second [&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":[479,316,440,1199],"class_list":["post-9922","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-12-3"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922"}],"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=9922"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9922\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9922"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9922"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9922"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}