Spacex launched a mission of milestones on Sunday night (April 27).
A Falcon 9 rocket that transports 23 of the company’s Starlink broadband satellites, including 13 with the direct capacity to the cell, the Florida Capeover space force station in Florida at 10:09 PM EDT (0209 GMT on Monday 28).
It was the 250th time that Spacex had sent a lot of Starlink Craft Skyward, the company pointed out through X shortly after the launch.
Approximately eight minutes after takeoff, the first stage of Falcon 9 returned to Earth for a vertical touchdown as planned. He landed on the Spacex drone ship “I just read the instructions”, which was parked in the Atlantic Ocean.
It was the 20th take -off and landing for this particular reinforcement, according to a description of the Spacex mission. Thirteen of those flights have been Starlink missions.
The upper stage of the rocket also did its job. He implemented the 23 Starlink satellites in Low Earth Orbit (Leo) approximately one hour after launch, Spacex announced in an update on X.
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The launch of Sunday night was the 48th Falcon 9 Flight of 2025, and the 31 dedicated to building the Megaconstellation of Starlink. That network currently consists of more than 7,200 operating satellites and is growing all the time.
The first dedicated Starlink launch occurred in May 2019 (Thinking Spacex launched two broadband prototype more than a year earlier, in February 2018). Around the last six years, Spacex has raised almost 8,400 Starlink satellites in those 250 pitches, according to the astrophysicist and the Jonathan McDowell satellite tracker.
