SpaceX launched a stack of 23 Starlink satellites from Florida this morning, Feb. 21, including to the corporate’s rising space-based web fleet.
The Falcon 9 rocket carrying the Starlink batch lifted off from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station Friday, at 10:19 p.m. EST (1519 GMT), in opposition to the sunny, blue sky of Florida’s House Coast.
About eight minutes into flight, following stage separation and deceleration burns, the Falcon 9 booster returned to Earth, downrange within the Atlantic Ocean. The booster, B1076, touched down on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship.
The profitable touchdown wraps up the twenty first flight for B1076, according to a SpaceX, and its twelfth Starlink mission.
Falcon 9’s higher stage continued its flight, carrying the 23 satellites into low-Earth orbit. SpaceX’s Starlink constellation at present totals round 7,000 satellites spanning throughout the globe to offer low-latency, high-speed web to SpaceX’s prospects.
This launch was SpaceX’s twenty third of 2025, together with on Starship launch from the corporate’s Starbase, Texas, launch website. At this time’s mission additionally marks the sixteenth Starlink launch for SpaceX thus far this 12 months.
A minimum of 4 extra Starlink launches are scheduled to launch earlier than the top of February, in addition to Starship’s eighth check flight, at present anticipated no sooner than Feb. 26.
