{"id":151191,"date":"2026-02-25T15:00:23","date_gmt":"2026-02-25T13:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/?post_type=news&#038;p=151191"},"modified":"2026-02-21T22:26:17","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T20:26:17","slug":"spacex-vdruge-pryzemlyla-raketu-na-bagamah","status":"publish","type":"news","link":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/news\/novosti\/spacex-vdruge-pryzemlyla-raketu-na-bagamah\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX Lands Rocket in the Bahamas for the Second Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"60\" data-end=\"358\"><span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">SpaceX<\/span><\/span> successfully landed a Falcon 9 rocket in the waters of the <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Bahamas<\/span><\/span> for the first time since February 2025 after delivering another 29 satellites into Earth orbit, according to <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Space.com<\/span><\/span>.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"360\" data-end=\"580\">The launch vehicle lifted off from a spaceport in the U.S. state of <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Florida<\/span><\/span> on February 20 at 03:41 Kyiv time. The Falcon 9 rocket was equipped with 29 Starlink broadband satellites.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"582\" data-end=\"783\">The rocket\u2019s first stage returned to Earth just over eight minutes after liftoff and successfully landed on a SpaceX drone ship platform in <span class=\"hover:entity-accent entity-underline inline cursor-pointer align-baseline\"><span class=\"whitespace-normal\">Exuma<\/span><\/span> Bay in the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"785\" data-end=\"1090\">This marks only the second time SpaceX has landed a rocket in Bahamian waters. Most Falcon 9 rockets launched from Florida\u2019s Space Coast land to the north in the open waters of the Atlantic Ocean. However, landings near the Bahamas open up new opportunities for launches to different orbital trajectories.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1092\" data-end=\"1330\">The Bahamas\u2019 civil aviation authority announced on Tuesday, February 17, that it had once again authorized SpaceX to conduct rocket landings in the bay following the completion of an environmental assessment of all launches in the region.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1332\" data-end=\"1460\">The new satellites will join nearly 9,700 others in the Starlink megaconstellation \u2014 the largest satellite network ever created.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"featured_media":151192,"menu_order":0,"template":"","newscat":[9],"newstag":[],"issues":[],"class_list":["post-151191","news","type-news","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","newscat-novosti"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news\/151191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/news"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/news"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/151192"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=151191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"newscat","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newscat?post=151191"},{"taxonomy":"newstag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/newstag?post=151191"},{"taxonomy":"issues","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ldaily.ua\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/issues?post=151191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}