{"id":65421,"date":"2026-09-06T15:54:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-06T15:54:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/?guid=7057e9f334049878be756dba57b58819"},"modified":"2026-09-07T14:58:48","modified_gmt":"2026-09-07T14:58:48","slug":"spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-27-starlink-satellites-lands-on-ship-at-sea-video","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/2026\/09\/06\/spacex-falcon-9-rocket-launches-27-starlink-satellites-lands-on-ship-at-sea-video\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites, lands on ship at sea (video)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n                            \n                            <article>\n                                <iframe src=\"https:\/\/content.jwplatform.com\/players\/CEgVgPRh.html\" id=\"CEgVgPRh\" title=\"Blastoff! SpaceX launches 80th Starlink mission of year, sticks landing\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1078\" frameborder=\"0\" scrolling=\"auto\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><p>SpaceX launched 27 more of its Starlink internet satellites to orbit today (Sept. 6).<\/p><p>The spacecraft rode to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/low-earth-orbit\"><u>low Earth orbit<\/u><\/a> (LEO) atop a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18962-spacex-falcon-9.html\"><u>Falcon 9<\/u><\/a> rocket, which lifted off from California's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/34147-vandenberg-air-force-base.html\"><u>Vandenberg Space Force Base<\/u><\/a> at 10:26 a.m. EDT (1426 GMT; 7:26 a.m. local California time). The Falcon 9 rose into blue morning skies \u2014\u00a0something of a rarity for California's central coast, which is often cloaked in fog.<\/p><p>The Falcon 9's first stage came back to Earth as planned 8.5 minutes later, landing in the Pacific Ocean on the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18853-spacex.html\"><u>SpaceX<\/u><\/a> drone ship \"Of Course I Still Love You.\" <\/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:2560px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.25%;\"><img id=\"imDS9PFBXeyCh9pHYKrrsD\" name=\"HRi1e4SXYAIo7rG\" alt=\"A black and white SpaceX satellite launches Starlink satellites from a seaside launch pad.\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/imDS9PFBXeyCh9pHYKrrsD.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"2560\" height=\"1440\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket launches 27 Starlink satellites into orbit from Vandenberg Space Force Base in California on Sept. 6, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><p>It was the 19th flight for this particular booster, which is designated B1088. This marks about the halfway point to the SpaceX record of 37 flights, 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<\/u><\/a> during a Starlink launch on Aug. 25.<\/p><p>The Falcon 9's upper stage, meanwhile, carried the 27 <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starlink-satellites.html\"><u>Starlink<\/u><\/a> satellites to LEO, deploying them on schedule 62 minutes after launch.<\/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:1080px;\"><p class=\"vanilla-image-block\" style=\"padding-top:56.30%;\"><img id=\"CusHmxhXYcEitcwY5PEASk\" name=\"1788709934.jpg\" alt=\"A sooty SpaceX rocket stands on an ocean drone ship platform after landing\" src=\"https:\/\/cdn.mos.cms.futurecdn.net\/CusHmxhXYcEitcwY5PEASk.jpg\" mos=\"\" align=\"middle\" fullscreen=\"\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" attribution=\"\" endorsement=\"\" class=\"inline\"><\/p><\/div><\/div><figcaption itemprop=\"caption description\" class=\" inline-layout\"><span class=\"caption-text\">SpaceX's sooty Falcon 9 rocket first stage on the drone ship Of Course I Still Love You in the Pacific Ocean after a successful launch and landing on Sept. 6, 2026. <\/span><span class=\"credit\" itemprop=\"copyrightHolder\">(Image credit: SpaceX)<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure><div  class=\"fancy-box\"><div class=\"fancy_box-title\">Previous Booster 1088 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-to-launch-next-gen-us-spy-satellites-20-starlink-spacecraft-from-california-early-nov-30\"><strong>NROL-126<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-to-launch-131-satellites-on-transporter-12-rideshare-mission-today\"><strong>Transporter-12<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/missions\/spacex-rocket-launches-nasa-spherex-space-telescope-and-punch-solar-probes\"><strong>SPHEREx<\/strong><\/a><strong> | <\/strong><a data-analytics-id=\"inline-link\" href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacex-launches-secret-spy-satellite-for-us-government-on-19th-anniversary-of-companys-1st-ever-liftoff-photos\"><strong>NROL-57<\/strong><\/a> <strong>| 13 Starlink missions<\/strong><\/p><\/div><\/div><p>Today's launch was the 103rd Falcon 9 mission of 2026. Eighty of those flights have been dedicated to building out the Starlink megaconstellation, by far the largest satellite network ever assembled. It currently consists of more than 11,000 active spacecraft, <a href=\"https:\/\/planet4589.org\/space\/con\/star\/stats.html\" ><u>according to<\/u><\/a> astronomer and satellite tracker Jonathan McDowell.<\/p><p>Starlink missions fly exclusively out of Vandenberg these days. SpaceX used to launch them from Florida as well, but the company recently <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/launches-spacecraft\/spacexs-final-falcon-9-starlink-launch-from-florida-creates-gorgeous-jellyfish-over-new-york-city-video\"><u>put those missions on hold<\/u><\/a> until it gets its Starship megarocket up and running on the Space Coast.<\/p><p>SpaceX will rely on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/spacex-starship-super-heavy.html\"><u>Starship<\/u><\/a> to launch its next-gen Starlink V3 satellites, which are bigger and more capable than the current V2. The company wants to assemble a network of about <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/space-exploration\/satellites\/spacex-wants-to-launch-100-000-starlink-satellites-to-orbit\"><u>100,000 Starlink V3s<\/u><\/a> in LEO, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.space.com\/18849-elon-musk.html\"><u>Elon Musk<\/u><\/a> has said.<\/p><div style=\"min-height: 1300px;\">                                <div class=\"kwizly-quiz kwizly-eM3blO\"><\/div>                            <\/div>                            <script src=\"https:\/\/kwizly.com\/embed\/eM3blO.js\" async><\/script>\n                                                            <\/article>\n                            \n                        ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX launched yet another batch of its Starlink internet satellites today (Sept. 6), sending them up from California&#8217;s central 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-65421","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\/65421"}],"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=65421"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65456,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65421\/revisions\/65456"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/hoo.central12.com\/fugic\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}