A brand new batch of SpaceX Starlink satellites are actually in orbit after a profitable launch from California on Monday (Feb. 10).
A Falcon 9 rocket carrying the 23 broadband spacecraft lifted off from Vandenberg House Drive Base at 9:09 p.m. EST (6:09 p.m. native California time; 0209 GMT on Feb. 11).
The Falcon 9’s first stage returned to Earth about eight minutes after liftoff as deliberate, touching down within the Pacific Ocean on the SpaceX drone ship “Of Course I Nonetheless Love You.”
It was the twenty third launch and touchdown for this explicit booster, in accordance with a SpaceX mission description. Fourteen of these flights have been Starlink missions.
The Falcon 9’s higher stage, in the meantime, continued to hold the 23 Starlink satellites to low Earth orbit. It deployed them there about 65 minutes after liftoff as deliberate, according to SpaceX.
SpaceX has now launched 18 Falcon 9 missions in 2025, 12 of them Starlink flights.
The Starlink satellite tv for pc constellation — the biggest ever launched — at present has greater than 6,900 operational spacecraft, according to astrophysicist and satellite tv for pc tracker Jonathan McDowell.
