{"id":63046,"date":"2026-07-21T18:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=47a8b91324f0e31c148a17425da3bab4"},"modified":"2026-07-21T18:30:00","modified_gmt":"2026-07-21T18:30:00","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-a-day-after-rare-launch-abort","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/07\/21\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-sends-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-a-day-after-rare-launch-abort\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket sends Starlink satellites to orbit a day after rare launch abort"},"content":{"rendered":"\n \n
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Twenty-four Starlink satellites reached low Earth orbit on Tuesday (July 21), a day later than originally scheduled due to a last-second rocket engine abort.<\/p>

<\/u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> at first tried to launch the broadband internet relay units on a Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rocket on Monday morning (July 20), but an unexpected engine cutoff at the point of ignition scrubbed the day's attempt<\/u><\/a>. The company did not provide a reason for the abort.<\/p>

By Tuesday, whatever the problem was had been addressed and the Falcon 9 was ready to fly. It liftoff off at 10:49 a.m. EDT (1449 GMT; 7:49 a.m. PDT local time) from Space Launch Complex 4 East at Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/u><\/a> in California. About an hour later, after a normal ascent, the new Starlink batch (Group 17-39<\/u><\/a>) were deployed into their intended orbit.<\/p>

\"Deployment of 24 Starlink satellites confirmed,\" SpaceX posted on social media<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>

Previous Booster B1082 missions:<\/div>

USSF-62<\/strong><\/a> | OneWeb Launch 20<\/strong><\/a> | NROL-145<\/strong><\/a> | 18 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div>

The Falcon 9 rocket's first stage, Booster 1082, completed its 23rd mission by touching down atop the droneship \"Of Course I Still Love You<\/u><\/a>\" positioned in the Pacific Ocean.<\/p>

The Starlink<\/u><\/a> network provides worldwide access to the internet, especially to areas where other means of connection are not possible. The megaconstellation also enables in-flight wifi and direct-to-cell services for select providers.<\/p>

Tuesday's Starlink launch was SpaceX's 85th Falcon 9 launch of the year. SpaceX experienced a similar but unrelated last-second abort<\/u><\/a> on its first attempt at launching its 13th test flight of its Starship<\/u><\/a> megarocket on Thursday (July 16). That flight has now been rescheduled for Thursday<\/u><\/a> (July 23).<\/p>\n <\/article>\n \n ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket carrying 24 Starlink satellites launched from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Tuesday (July 21), a day after aborting its first liftoff attempt.<\/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-63046","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\/63046"}],"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=63046"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63046\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":63047,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/63046\/revisions\/63047"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=63046"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=63046"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=63046"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}