{"id":64589,"date":"2026-08-21T15:28:24","date_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:28:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=30a02b681f6b56980c3abeb3dc4e57ad"},"modified":"2026-08-21T15:41:33","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T15:41:33","slug":"spacex-launches-29-starlink-satellites-lands-rocket-on-ship-at-sea-photos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/08\/21\/spacex-launches-29-starlink-satellites-lands-rocket-on-ship-at-sea-photos\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites, lands rocket on ship at sea (video, photos)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/wXLc1RDH.html\" id=\"wXLc1RDH\" title=\"SpaceX launches Starlink satellites from Florida on day after aborted attempt\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida's Space Coast.<\/p><p>The spacecraft flew aboard a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rocket, which lifted off from Florida's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/33926-cape-canaveral.html\"><u>Cape Canaveral Space Force Station<\/u><\/a> today at 11:14 a.m. EDT (1514 GMT). That was a day later than planned; SpaceX scrubbed a liftoff attempt on Thursday (Aug. 20) for reasons that were not immediately clear.<\/p><p>The Falcon 9's first stage came back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\"><u>Earth<\/u><\/a> as planned today, landing about 8.5 minutes after launch in the Atlantic Ocean atop the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> droneship \"A Shortfall of Gravitas.\" It was the 30th liftoff and touchdown for this particular booster, which is designated B1078.<\/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:2848px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"Y8CYyMQEBcvCKfC3NsiPyZ\" name=\"Screenshot 2026-08-21 at 8.14.48\u202fAM\" alt=\"a black and white rocket launches from a seaside pad\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Y8CYyMQEBcvCKfC3NsiPyZ.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2848\" height=\"1602\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 29 Starlink internet satellites from Florida\u2019s Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Aug. 21, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, continued hauling the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> satellites skyward. It will deploy the new batch into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\"><u>low Earth orbit<\/u><\/a> 61.5 minutes after liftoff, if all goes to plan.<\/p><p>There are already quite a few operational Starlink spacecraft up there \u2014nearly 11,000, in fact, <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" ><u>according to<\/u><\/a> astronomer and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell. <\/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:2837px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.26%;\"><img id=\"LLWyksJqUgZqAr8pxua8ZR\" name=\"Screenshot 2026-08-21 at 8.23.08\u202fAM\" alt=\"A black and white spacex falcon 9 rocket first stage sits on the deck of a ship at sea.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/LLWyksJqUgZqAr8pxua8ZR.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2837\" height=\"1596\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">The Falcon 9's first stage rests on the deck of a drone ship shortly after its touchdown on Aug. 21, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><div  class=\"fancy-box\"><div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Previous Booster B1078 launches<\/div><div class=\"fancy_box_body\"><p class=\"fancy-box__body-text\"><strong><\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-crew-6-mission-launches-to-space-station\"><strong>Crew-6<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launch-2-mpower-communication-satellites-from-florida\"><strong>SES O3b mPOWER-B<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-space-force-ussf-124-mission-launch\"><strong>USSF-124<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-ast-spacemobile-bluebird-launch-september-2024\"><strong>Bluebird 1-5<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-powerful-satellite-to-orbit-for-indonesian-telecom-company\"><strong>Nusantara Lima (PSN N5)<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launching-its-1st-starfall-reentry-capsule-early-on-june-23-watch-it-live\"><strong>Starfall Demo<\/strong><\/a><strong> |<\/strong> <strong>23 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><p>Today's launch was the 98th Falcon 9 flight of the year already. Seventy-five of them have been dedicated Starlink missions.<\/p><p>SpaceX also has three other liftoffs under its belt in 2026 \u2014 one launch of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-viasat-3-f3-launch\"><u>Falcon Heavy<\/u><\/a> rocket and two test flights of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> megarocket, which is still in development.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched yet another Starlink mission today (Aug. 21), sending 29 more of the broadband satellites to orbit from Florida&#8217;s Space Coast.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":587,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2799,1263],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64589","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\/64589"}],"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\/587"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64589"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64589\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64608,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64589\/revisions\/64608"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64589"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64589"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64589"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}