SpaceX’s Sunday morning Falcon 9 launch will ship 1,900th Starlink to orbit in 2025 – Spaceflight Now

SpaceX is capping off the month of August with a Sunday morning dawn Starlink mission. This would be the firm’s ninth time launching its broadband web satellites this month alone.

All advised in 2025, following the deployment of the 28 satellites on the Starlink 10-14 mission, SpaceX can have deployed greater than 1,900 of its Starlink V2 Mini satellites into low Earth orbit throughout 77 Falcon 9 launches.

Its newest flight is scheduled to liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 7:20 a.m. EDT (1120 UTC). It will fly on a north-easterly trajectory upon departure from Florida’s Space Coast.

Spaceflight Now can have dwell protection starting about an hour previous to liftoff.



On Saturday, the forty fifth Weather Squadron predicted a sliding scale for the launch climate forecast. Meteorologists forecast a 90 % probability for favorable climate on the opening of the window, however issues deteriorate to a 65 % probability for a very good outlook as time goes on.

Launch climate officers cite potential issues for cumulus clouds and anvil clouds on account of “isolated offshore showers… at the start of the window.”

“A weak westerly flow pattern continues over the state and will persist through the weekend, as a weak surface boundary over the northern portions of the peninsula gradually sags southward,” meteorologists wrote. “With moisture levels remaining very high, showers and thunderstorms are expected to develop quickly with daytime heating each day, then slowly drift back toward the east coast during the afternoon and evening hours before diminishing overnight.”

SpaceX will launch the Starlink 10-14 mission utilizing the Falcon 9 first stage booster 1077, which can make its twenty third journey to area and again. Some of its earlier missions embrace NASA’s Crew-5, GPS III Space Vehicle 06 and NG-20.

Nearly 8.5 minutes after liftoff, the primary stage booster will goal a touchdown on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions,’ which will probably be positioned within the Atlantic Ocean off the coast of South Carolina.

A profitable booster restoration can be the 134th for that drone ship and the 497th booster touchdown for SpaceX thus far.

On Wednesday, Aug. 27, SpaceX introduced that its Starlink broadband web service reached a threshold of seven million clients throughout roughly 150 nations, territories and smaller markets. That’s a development of three million clients since September 2024.

• August 2025 – 7 million clients/150+ nations, territories and smaller markets
• June 2025 – 6 million clients/140+ nations, territories and smaller markets
• February 2025 – 5 million clients/125+ nations, territories and smaller markets
• September 2024 – 4 million clients/100+ nations, territories and smaller markets
• May 2024 – 3 million clients/99+ nations, territories and smaller markets
• September 2023 – 2 million clients/60+ nations and smaller markets
• December 2022 – 1 million clients

During the prelaunch protection of Starship Flight 10, SpaceX mentioned in a pre-produced video that roughly two-thirds of all operational satellites in orbit are Starlinks. Cornelia Rosu, the senior director of Starlink Production, mentioned within the video that SpaceX is producing dozens of Starlink V2 Mini satellites weekly at its amenities in Redmond, Washington.

“Generally satellite manufacturing is a very slow process. It takes people weeks or months to build a satellite,” Rosu mentioned. “At SpaceX, we iterate very fast and we have learned how to build satellites at a 70 sats per week rate.”

SpaceX plans to launch a minimum of 170 Falcon 9 rockets throughout 2025, with the vast majority of these supporting its Starlink constellation. Sunday’s launch will the 108th of the 12 months.

Starlink satellites are designed, constructed, launched and operated from the United States to supply connectivity anyplace on the planet pic.twitter.com/NkcjJw4nDT

— Starlink (@Starlink) August 25, 2025