{"id":174704,"date":"2023-10-25T10:23:41","date_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/launch-roundup-spacex-surpass-5000-active-starlink-satellites-china-to-send-taikonauts-to-space-station"},"modified":"2023-10-25T10:23:41","modified_gmt":"2023-10-25T15:23:41","slug":"launch-roundup-spacex-surpass-5000-active-starlink-satellites-china-to-send-taikonauts-to-space-station","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2023\/10\/launch-roundup-spacex-surpass-5000-active-starlink-satellites-china-to-send-taikonauts-to-space-station","title":{"rendered":"Launch Roundup: SpaceX surpass 5,000 active Starlink satellites; China to send taikonauts to space station"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding-right: 20px\"><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/launch-roundup-spacex-surpass-5000-active-starlink-satellites-china-to-send-taikonauts-to-space-station.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>The week of Oct. 23 through Oct 30 is a big one for low-Earth orbit (LEO) with all but one flight headed to already existing constellations. This includes two Falcon 9 launches on opposite sides of the country, one Russian Soyuz 2.1b launch, and two different launches planned out of China, one involving humans.<\/p>\n<p>Two Chinese launches start the week, with the first being a Chang Zheng 2D preparing for its flight from LC-3 at Xichang Satellite Launch Center. Then, a Chang Zheng 2F\/G will launch out of LC-90 at the China Jiuquan Satellite Launch Center, before a Soyuz 2.1b launches out of Plesetsk Cosmodrome. Then the first Falcon 9 launches more Starlink satellites on the other side of the world out of SLC-4E at Vandenberg Spaceforce Base (VSFB). Then, on the other side of America, Falcon 9 Starlink launches out of SLC-40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station (CCSFS).<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"https:\/\/forum.nasaspaceflight.com\/index.php?topic=59711.0\">Chang Zheng 2D \u2013 Yaogan 39 Group 04<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The week of Oct. 23 through Oct 30 is a big one for low-Earth orbit (LEO) with all but one flight headed to already existing constellations. This includes two Falcon 9 launches on opposite sides of the country, one Russian Soyuz 2.1b launch, and two different launches planned out of China, one involving humans. Two [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[418,2028],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-174704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-internet","category-satellites"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=174704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/174704\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=174704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=174704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=174704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}