SpaceX launched its 119th Falcon 9 mission of the 12 months at the moment (Sept. 21), sending one other batch of its Starlink web satellites aloft from Florida’s Area Coast.
A Falcon 9 rocket topped with 28 Starlink spacecraft lifted off from Cape Canaveral Area Pressure Station at the moment at 6:53 a.m. EDT (1053 GMT).
The Falcon 9’s first stage got here again to Earth as deliberate about 8.5 minutes later, touching down on the SpaceX drone ship “A Shortfall of Gravitas,” which was stationed within the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the eleventh flight for this explicit booster, which is designated B1085. Amongst its earlier missions had been the Crew-9 and Fram2 astronaut flights and Firefly Blue Ghost Mission 1, which despatched a personal robotic lander to the moon.
In the meantime, the Falcon 9’s higher stage continued carrying the 28 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit, the place they had been deployed on time about 64 minutes after launch, in keeping with SpaceX.
Earlier Booster 1085 missions
Right now’s launch was the 119th Falcon 9 flight of the 12 months. SpaceX has additionally performed 4 different launches in 2025 — suborbital take a look at flights of Starship, the enormous rocket the corporate is growing to assist humanity settle Mars.
The newest Starship launch — the tenth general for the automobile — occurred on Aug. 26 and was a whole success, in keeping with SpaceX.
