SpaceX launched a contemporary batch of Starlink spacecraft into orbit this morning (Sep. 3), lofting 28 extra satellites into the corporate’s megaconstellation of over 8,000.
A Falcon 9 rocket lifted off from Space Launch Complex-40, at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 GMT). It got here simply over 8 hours after a distinct Falcon 9 launched 24 Starlink satellites of its personal late Monday night time from SpaceX’s Vandenberg Space Force Base pad in California.
The mission, Starlink 10-22, carried more than two dozen of the broadband relays into low-Earth orbit (LEO), deploying the satellites about an hour after liftoff, SpaceX confirmed in a post on X.
It was the 14th launch of B1083, the Falcon 9 booster that supported Starlink 10-22. About 2.5 minutes after liftoff, the booter efficiently executed a principal engine cutoff (MECO) and stage separation from the rocket’s higher half.
After profitable deceleration and touchdown burns, B1083 softly touched down on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship within the Atlantic Ocean about six minutes later.
Starlink 10-22 is SpaceX’s 113th launch of 2025, and is the second of 5 Starlink launches the corporate has scheduled for this week. (The first was final night time’s flight from California.)
SpaceX’s Starlink megaconstellation at the moment totals greater than 8,100 satellites in LEO, in accordance with astronomer and spacecraft tracker Jonathan McDowell. They present web entry to Starlink subscribers across the globe, providing entry to low-latency excessive pace web with practically worldwide protection.