29.10.2025

SpaceX launches 29 Starlink satellites on Falcon 9 rocket from Cape Canaveral

Update Oct. 29, 1:48 p.m. EDT (1748 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of the 29 Starlink satellites.

SpaceX its penultimate Falcon 9 rocket launch of October, which flew from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station around lunchtime on Wednesday.

The Starlink 10-37 mission carried 29 of the company’s Starlink V2 Mini Optimized satellites into low Earth orbit.

Liftoff from Space Launch Complex 40 happened at 12:35 p.m. EDT (1635 UTC). The satellites were deployed roughly an hour into the mission.

The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 95 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window. Meteorologists said that conditions in the booster recovery area “remain a watch item, due to elevated waves off the (South) Carolina coast.”

SpaceX launched the mission using its first stage booster with the tail number B1083. This was its 15th flight after launching missions, like Crew-8, Polaris Dawn and Intuitive Machines Mission 2.

About 8.5 minutes after liftoff, B1083 completed an autonomou landing on the drone ship, ‘Just Read the Instructions’. This was the 139th landing on this vessel and the 526th booster landing to date.

The Starlink 10-37 mission was just the second time that SpaceX launched the maximum number of the V2 Mini satellites that the Falcon 9 is capable of launching while flying in a reusable booster configuration. The first time SpaceX flew at max capacity was the Starlink 6-84 mission on May 4, 2025.

Quelle: SN