The Area Coast hosted its 89th orbital launch of the 12 months with one other SpaceX Starlink mission on Sunday morning.
A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-21 mission carrying 29 satellites lifted off at 11 a.m. from Cape Canaveral Area Power Station’s Area Launch Complicated 40.
The primary-stage booster made its twenty fourth flight with a restoration touchdown downrange on the droneship A Shortfall of Gravitas stationed within the Atlantic.
Falcon 9 launches 28 @Starlink satellites to orbit from pad 40 from Florida pic.twitter.com/egmVbtb4Bh
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 26, 2025
The newest batch of Starlink satellites continues so as to add to SpaceX’s huge constellation already in orbit.
The corporate just lately surpassed greater than 10,000 Starlink satellites launched because the first operational mission in 2019, in accordance with knowledge maintained by astronomer Jonathan McDowell, though solely 8,700 of these stay in orbit.
Falcon 9 completes our one hundred and thirty fifth mission of the 12 months after lifting off from pad 4E in California and delivering 28 @Starlink satellites to the constellation pic.twitter.com/PHfCYTzlYY
— SpaceX (@SpaceX) October 25, 2025
A launch from California on Saturday was SpaceX’s one hundred and thirty fifth of the 12 months, besting the earlier file of 134 launches it had 2024. The Florida launch made it 136, not counting the 5 suborbital Starship missions from Texas.
The corporate had 96 launches in 2023, 61 in 2022 and solely 31 in 2021.
For the Area Coast, SpaceX has flown all however 5 of the 12 months’s missions with United Launch Alliance managing 4 launches thus far this 12 months, and Blue Origin chargeable for one. Each ULA and Blue Origin have launches lined up for early November, whereas SpaceX will try to squeeze yet another Falcon 9 launch in earlier than the tip of the 12 months.
The Area Coast might surpass the file 93 launches seen in 2024 amongst all launch suppliers by mid-November, properly on its solution to possible surpassing 100 for the 12 months.
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