{"id":65206,"date":"2026-09-02T11:24:21","date_gmt":"2026-09-02T11:24:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=36b1d1720477dc58a92309b03919ef0c"},"modified":"2026-09-02T13:38:31","modified_gmt":"2026-09-02T13:38:31","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-its-35th-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/09\/02\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-starlink-satellites-to-orbit-on-its-35th-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches Starlink satellites to orbit on its 35th flight"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/LxEEZRj3.html\" id=\"LxEEZRj3\" title=\"SpaceX launches and deploys 27 Starlink satellites, sticks droneship landing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1080\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>The Starlink missions keep on coming.<\/p><p>A SpaceX <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rocket launched 27 of the company's internet satellites to orbit this morning (Sept. 2), lifting off from California's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34147-vandenberg-air-force-base.html\"><u>Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/u><\/a> at 4:42 a.m. EDT (0842 GMT; 1:42 a.m. local California time). <\/p><p>It was the 35th flight for this Falcon 9's first stage, which is known as Booster 1063. That's just two shy of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> reuse record, which was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-starship-record-37th-booster-flight-100-falcon-9-launches\"><u>set by B1067 last week<\/u><\/a>.<\/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:2000px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"Ch9atZrfQZU3ZLbHnyXdfV\" name=\"HRM-rBtWkAE4GFO\" alt=\"a white rocket lifts off above a plume of fire and smoke\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/Ch9atZrfQZU3ZLbHnyXdfV.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1125\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches from California's Vandenberg Space Force Base on Sept. 2, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>And B1063 will almost certainly fly again: It came back to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/54-earth-history-composition-and-atmosphere.html\"><u>Earth<\/u><\/a> successfully today, landing in the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship \"Of Course I Still Love You\" about 8.5 minutes after launch.<\/p><p>The rocket's upper stage did its part as well, deploying the 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> satellites into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\"><u>low Earth orbit<\/u><\/a> 62 minutes after launch. They're joining the largest satellite constellation ever assembled, which currently consists of <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" ><u>more than 11,000<\/u><\/a> active spacecraft.<\/p><div  class=\"fancy-box\"><div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Previous Booster 1063 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-launches-sentinel-6-michael-freilich-ocean-satellite\"><strong>Sentinel-6 Michael Freilich<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nasa-dart-mission-launch-asteroid-planetary-defense\"><strong>DART<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-transporter-7-rideshare-mission-launch\"><strong>Transporter-7<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-iridium-oneweb-launch-may-2023\"><strong>Iridium OneWeb<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-launch-space-force-second-tranche-0-mission\"><strong>SDA-0B<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-nrol-113-spy-satellites-launch\"><strong>NROL-113<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-nrol-167-launch-spy-satellites\"><strong>NROL-167<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launching-6th-batch-of-next-gen-us-spy-satellites-from-california-today\"><strong>NROL-149<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/watch-spacex-launch-earth-observation-satellite-for-luxembourg-and-7-other-satellites-today\"><strong>NAOS<\/strong><\/a><strong> | 25 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><p>This morning's launch was the 102nd Falcon 9 flight of the year, 79 of which have been dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation.<\/p><p>SpaceX has launched four other times in 2026 as well, conducting two missions of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/39779-falcon-heavy-facts.html\"><u>Falcon Heavy<\/u><\/a> rocket and two suborbital test flights of its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> megarocket, which remains in development. The second Falcon Heavy launch of the year <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/nasa-roman-space-telescope-launch-success-on-a-spacex-falcon-heavy-rocket-spectacular-launch-video\"><u>occurred on Sunday<\/u><\/a> (Aug. 30); it sent up NASA's next flagship observatory, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/nancy-grace-roman-space-telescope\"><u>Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope<\/u><\/a>.<\/p>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launched 27 Starlink satellites from California early this morning (Sept. 2). 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