The records keep coming for SpaceX.
One of the company Falcon 9 The rockets took off from California. Vandenberg Space Force Base today (October 25) at 10:20 a.m. EDT (1420 GMT; 7:20 a.m. local time), carrying 28 Star Link internet satellites to low earth orbit (LION).
All of SpaceX’s orbital flights this year have been carried out by Falcon 9, which has already launched as many missions in the last 11 months as NASA has. space shuttle flew in its 30-year history.
SpaceX has also launched five suborbital test flights of its starship mega rocket so far this year. In 2024, the company launched 132 Falcon 9 missions, two flights of the most powerful heavy falconand four Starship suborbital tests.
Previous Booster 1081 Missions
On today’s flight, the Falcon 9 returned to Earth as planned and landed in the Pacific Ocean on the unmanned ship “Of Course I Still Love You” about 8.5 minutes after takeoff. It was the nineteenth launch and landing of this particular booster, designated 1081.
Meanwhile, the Falcon 9 upper stage continued to transport the 28 Starlink satellites toward LEO, where they will be deployed approximately one hour after liftoff.
SpaceX has achieved a number of important milestones over the past week. For example, a recent mission launched the The 10,000th Starlink satellite in orbitand another was the 31st record flight of the Falcon 9 booster known as 1067.
And the October 23 launch of the Spainsat NG-2 satellite was the 139th general takeoff of the year for SpaceX, also a new record.
