TITUSVILLE, FL – SpaceX successfully achieved its 500th Falcon Booster landing after a rapid fire launch duo opened the month of September with Space Coast blastoffs on Sept 3 & 5 from pads 39A and 40 – to fortify the Starlink mega constellation of broadband internet satellites.
The month of September began auspiciously with the SpaceX Starlink 10-22 mission sunrise liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, Florida on September 3, at 7:56 a.m. EDT (1156 UTC) soaring northeast and carrying 28 Starlink V2 Mini satellites to LEO
This counted as the company’s 110th Falcon 9 launch of the year and 499th landing.
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F9 B1083.14 landed on the drone ship ‘A Shortfall of Gravitas’ ASOG marking the 123rd landing on the ship and the 499th booster landing to date on its 14th mission to space and back.
Next up just 2 days later came the Starlink 10-57 mission liftoff from Launch Complex 39A at 8:32 a.m. EDT (1232 UTC) on Friday morning Sept. 5 from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center, Florida.
Starlink 10-57 mission also flew on a north easterly trajectory and F9 1069.27 landed on the JRTI ‘Just Read the Instructions’ droneship about eight and a half minutes later off the coast of the Carolinas – on its 27th mission to space and back.
This counted as the company’s 111th Falcon 9 launch and 500th landing of the year 2025.
SpaceX is hoping to launch about 170 Falcon rockets by the end of the year
The Starlink constellation comprises over 8300 broadband internet satellites operating in LEO
Next Falcon 9 launch from the Cape is targeting Sept 8 from pad 40
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Ken Kremer Interviews
Sept 4/5 WFTV ABC News Orlando: Watch my comments about FAA approving SpaceX to more than double Falcon 9 launches from 50 to 120 per year from Cape pad 40. They claim no impact on the environment and plan no Environmental Impact Statement (EIS). I say we need one. Show us the data – and explain what is the impact on the air & maritime sea spaces and millions of visiting tourists
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