Updated August 14, 10:30 AM EDT: Spacex Starlink confirms the deployment of satellites.
SpaceX launched a Falcon 9 rocket with a batch of 28 of its Starlink V2 mini satellites during Thursday flight from Space Coast in Florida.
The Pad 40 at the Cape Canveral Space Force Station was at EDT (1229 UTC) at 8:29 am on the Starlink 10-20 mission. This year was the 69th orbital launch from Florida this year.
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The 45th weather squadron estimated 90 percent of the possibility of a favorable weather conditions for liftoffs. Meteorologists said on Wednesday that they only “had some concern with intervention from any timid communus that pushes the coast.”
“Overnight/morning winds are expected to maintain more south -western flows for both primary and backup launch windows, which should help limit any cumulus clouds by tracking the onshore from the activity developed on the Atlantic,” Launch Weather Officers wrote.
SpaceX used Falcon 9 First Stage Booster with tail number B1085 to launch this mission on its 10th flight. Its previous missions included NASA’s crew -9, Blue Ghost Mission 1 of Jugnu Aerospace and Fram2.
About 8.5 minutes after the liftoff, the B1085 landed on the droneship ‘read the bus instructions,’ completing the 132nd landing on this vessel and the 488th booster landing till date.
In addition to these latest 28 Starlink satellites, SpaceX launched a total of 1,762 Starlink satellites in 2025 during 71 Falcon 9 flights. The vast majority of those missions, so far, have been launched from the Cape Canvart Space Force Station.
Later on Thursday, the California Coastal Commission will discuss a proposal being argued by the US Space Force on behalf of Spacex that the company should be allowed to increase the number of Falcon 9 launch from the Wandenberg Space Force Base from 50 to 95.
Along with permission for both SpaceX Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy Launch, SpaceX is also looking to replace the Spacex Launch Complex 6 in VSFB to add a pair of landing pads on that site.
