Personal spaceflight continues its upward trajectory.
American corporations launched 21 business area missions in June 2025, which was a brand new document for a single month, based on the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA).
The previous document of 20 was set in November 2024.
“Operations in the course of the document month embody 21 launches performed by 4 operators: Blue Origin, Rocket Lab, SpaceX and United Launch Alliance,” FAA officers stated in an emailed assertion.
“These occurred in California, Florida, Texas and New Zealand, and concerned orbital, suborbital and business human spaceflight missions,” they added. (California-based Rocket Lab’s main launch website is on New Zealand’s North Island.)
SpaceX was by far the busiest of the 4 operators, launching 15 of the month’s 21 missions. Twelve of these 15 flights have been dedicated to constructing out the corporate’s Starlink broadband megaconstellation in low Earth orbit.
June continued a really lively 2025 for SpaceX, which has launched 81 missions up to now this yr. The corporate is due to this fact on tempo to interrupt its single-year document of 134 orbital liftoffs, which was set in 2024. (These numbers do not rely the suborbital take a look at flights of SpaceX’s new Starship megarocket, which launched 4 occasions in 2024 and has flown thrice up to now this yr.)
SpaceX was additionally answerable for one among June’s two human spaceflight missions — Ax-4, which despatched 4 non-public astronauts towards the Worldwide House Station on June 25.
The month’s different crewed mission was NS-33, a suborbital vacationer flight by Blue Origin that launched and landed on June 29.
