{"id":62018,"date":"2026-07-02T22:32:50","date_gmt":"2026-07-02T22:32:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=ce2fc50aa443348365cceadd0e3c073c"},"modified":"2026-07-03T05:03:57","modified_gmt":"2026-07-03T05:03:57","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-24-starlink-satellites-from-california","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/07\/02\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-24-starlink-satellites-from-california\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 24 Starlink satellites from California (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/j7DQqMwp.html\" id=\"j7DQqMwp\" title=\"SpaceX launches Starlink mission from California, sticks landing in Pacific\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>SpaceX grew its Starlink network by 24 more satellites on Wednesday evening (July 1) with a launch from California.<\/p><p>A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rocket carrying the two dozen new relay spacecraft (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.spacex.com\/launches\/sl-17-46\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><u>Group 17-46<\/u><\/a>) lifted off from Space Launch Complex 4 East at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34147-vandenberg-air-force-base.html\"><u>Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/u><\/a> at 10:58 p.m. EDT (0258 GMT on July 2 or 7:58 p.m. PDT local time). About an hour later, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> confirmed the satellites were <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/SpaceX\/status\/2072531609660567632\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><u>successfully deployed<\/u><\/a> in low Earth orbit.<\/p><figure class=\"van-image-figure  inline-layout\" data-bordeaux-image-check ><div class='image-full-width-wrapper'><div class='image-widthsetter' style=\"max-width:1920px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"omrAvhRd3fNFuBAZeMh3Ef\" name=\"spacex_falcon_9_starlink_launch\" alt=\"A white and black rocket launches into an overcast evening sky from an ocean-side pad.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/omrAvhRd3fNFuBAZeMh3Ef.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, July 1, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><div  class=\"fancy-box\"><div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Previous Booster B1100 launches<\/div><div class=\"fancy_box_body\"><p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-nrol-105-spy-satellite-mission-launch\"><strong>NROL-105<\/strong><\/a><strong> | 5 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><p>The Falcon 9's first stage (Booster 1100) completed its seventh flight to space and back, landing on the drone ship \"Of Course I Still Love You\" positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p><p>SpaceX's Starlink megaconstellation now totals more than 10,700 active satellites, according to <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\"  rel=\"nofollow\"><u>tracker Jonathan McDowell<\/u><\/a>. The service supports connectively around the globe, as well as in-flight and direct-to-cell services.<\/p><p>Wednesday's launch was SpaceX's 79th Falcon 9 liftoff of the year.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Wednesday, July 1, 2026.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":628,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2799,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62018","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-launches-amp-spacecraft","category-space-exploration"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62018"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/628"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=62018"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62018\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62039,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62018\/revisions\/62039"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=62018"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=62018"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=62018"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}