{"id":290796,"date":"2025-04-26T07:51:19","date_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:51:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-nails-booster-landing\/"},"modified":"2025-04-26T07:51:20","modified_gmt":"2025-04-26T07:51:20","slug":"spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-nails-booster-landing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/2025\/04\/26\/spacex-launches-28-starlink-satellites-nails-booster-landing\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, nails booster landing"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"text-align:center\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/ART_1_Full__1745599145015.jpg?ssl=1\" class=\"attachment-post-thumbnail size-post-thumbnail wp-post-image\" alt=\"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, nails booster landing\" title=\"SpaceX launches 28 Starlink satellites, nails booster landing\" \/><\/div><p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div>\n<p>SpaceX added to its growing <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/starlink\">Starlink<\/a> mega-constellation with a launch to orbit and booster recovery. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/cape-canaveral-space\">Cape Canaveral Space Force\u2002Station&#8217;s<\/a> Launch Complex-40 at 9:52 p.m. EDT (0152 GMT on April 25), carrying 28 new satellites into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft were stacked vertically inside the rocket&#8217;s nose cone, where they sat on the Falcon 9&#8217;s nine first-stage Merlin engine stack\u2002that blasted them into the sky over Florida&#8217;s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"falcon-9-booster-lands-on-droneship-as-28-starlink-satellites-reach-orbit\">Falcon 9 Booster Lands on Droneship as 28 Starlink Satellites Reach Orbit<\/h2>\n<p>According to a <a class=\"sp_lnk2\" href=\"https:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/science\/spacexs-falcon-9-rocket-successfully-launched-28-starlink-satellites-into-orbit-from-cape-canaveral-on-april-24\/articleshow\/120610322.cms\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">SpaceX mission<\/a> update, the Falcon 9&#8217;s first stage, booster B1069, separated from the upper stage about 2.5 minutes after launch. Roughly six minutes later, it executed a precise landing on the autonomous droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas, stationed in the Atlantic Ocean. This marked the 23rd successful flight for B1069 and the 19th time it supported a Starlink mission. The rocket&#8217;s second stage continued on its course, deploying the 28 satellites into low Earth orbit one hour into the mission.<\/p>\n<p>These satellites come as new additions to the\u2002mission (Starlink 6-74), which is now amplifying an extensive network of no less than 7000+ operational units established in orbit. Starlink&#8217;s gates are inching open, as each new flight strengthens global service, and the\u2002company aims to beam high-speed internet to nearly every location on Earth, except the polar region. In the days to come, the new arrivals will gradually drift into their assigned orbital\u2002slots.<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"spacex-marks-47th-falcon-9-launch-expands-global-starlink-coverage\">SpaceX Marks 47th Falcon 9 Launch, Expands Global Starlink Coverage<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/spacex\">SpaceX<\/a> is still maintaining a breakneck launch tempo for 2025, with Thursday&#8217;s flight being the 47th <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/tags\/falcon-9\">Falcon 9 mission<\/a> of the year and the 30th carrying\u2002Starlink satellites only. The timeline reflects the firm&#8217;s determination to broaden satellite broadband deployment, particularly to rural and poorly served parts\u2002of the world. Each new batch enhances service reliability and builds resilience into the constellation&#8217;s structure.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink program continues to reshape global internet accessibility, backed by the Falcon 9&#8217;s proven reusability and precision recovery. As they tick off their successful booster landing and payload deployment, SpaceX continues to redefine both space travel\u2002logistics and satellite-powered access on Earth.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.gadgets360.com\/science\/news\/spacex-falcon-9-launches-28-starlink-satellites-nails-23rd-booster-landing-on-droneship-8257019#rss-gadgets-news\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SpaceX added to its growing Starlink mega-constellation with a launch to orbit and booster recovery. A Falcon 9 rocket launched from Cape Canaveral Space Force\u2002Station&#8217;s Launch Complex-40 at 9:52 p.m. EDT (0152 GMT on April 25), carrying 28 new satellites into low Earth orbit. The spacecraft were stacked vertically inside the rocket&#8217;s nose cone, where [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":290797,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/i.gadgets360cdn.com\/large\/ART_1_Full__1745599145015.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[607],"tags":[79644,186419,92698,6990,4656,25892,161873,66565,27903,113750,23,226205,30088],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290796"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=290796"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290796\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":290798,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/290796\/revisions\/290798"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/290797"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=290796"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=290796"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news.talkwithrattan.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=290796"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}