SpaceX launch caps busy month, nonetheless on monitor to go 100 Space Coast missions this yr

SpaceX stays on monitor to surpass 100 launches on the Space Coast for 2025, knocking out No. 70 on Sunday morning with 4 months to go.

A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-14 mission with 28 satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:49 a.m.

The first-stage booster made its twenty third flight with a restoration touchdown downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions.

It marked the ninth launch in August for the Space Coast, with eight from SpaceX and one from United Launch Alliance. Among these launches had been the ultimate crewed mission from Florida this yr, the Aug. 1 launch of Crew-11, and the return of Boeing’s X-37B mini area shuttle to area for a categorised Space Force mission. ULA’s lone mission was its first nationwide safety flight for its new Vulcan rocket.

The manifest additionally simply this previous Thursday noticed the flight of SpaceX’s fleet-leading booster making a file thirtieth journey to area with one other profitable touchdown.

Elon Musk’s firm has two extra launches on faucet this week to start out what may very well be a fair busier September, with Starlink missions deliberate from Canaveral’s SLC-40 on Wednesday throughout a window that runs from 7:06–11:06 a.m., after which Thursday from Kennedy Space Center Launch Pad 39-A throughout a launch window from 7:18–11:18 a.m.

Later this month, Falcon 9 rockets are slated to launch a resupply mission with Northrop Grumman’s Cygnus spacecraft to the International Space Station on Sept. 15 after which a science mission with a number of payloads for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration and NASA no sooner than Sept. 23 in addition to extra Starlink flights.

SpaceX has flown all however 4 of the 74 orbital launches which have taken off from the Space Coast this yr, which is closing in on surpassing the file 93 launches from all firms the area noticed in 2024, a milestone that may very well be met by the top of October.

The tempo continues to climb, with 2023 having seen 72 total launches from Florida. Space Launch Delta 45, which oversees the Eastern Range and helps all rocket launches from the Space Coast, had acknowledged it might assist as many as 156 launches a yr.

While not anticipated to hit that mark, SpaceX’s elevated tempo has additionally been paired with the current return to a standard flight fee from ULA, which has had three launches to this point this yr, however plans to fly as many as 5 extra amongst its remaining Atlas V rockets and rising provide of Vulcans.

Its subsequent mission is on faucet for the top of the month, when an Atlas V is focusing on a Sept. 25 launch from Canaveral’s Space Launch Complex 41 with 27 satellites for Amazon’s Project Kuiper, a competitor to SpaceX’s Starlink.

Jeff Bezos’ Blue Origin flew the opposite launch of the three suppliers which have flown from the Space Coast when it debuted its heavy-lift New Glenn rocket in January. Its subsequent flight may be on the finish of the month, with the corporate nonetheless focusing on no sooner than Sept. 29 to fly a pair of spacecraft for NASA to Mars.

SpaceX has additionally flown 38 operational missions of its Falcon 9 from California’s Vandenberg Space Force Base in 2025 in addition to 4 check suborbital missions of its in-development Starship and Super Heavy from its Texas website Starbase, together with a profitable flight on Sept. 26.

The firm is awaiting approval for 2 Starship launch websites on the Space Coast that would see as much as 120 launches a yr when totally operational. These can be along with sustaining its launch pads for Falcon 9 and the bigger Falcon Heavy.

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