SpaceX remains on track to surpass 100 launches on the Space Coast for 2025 knocking out No. 70 on Sunday morning with four months to go.
A Falcon 9 on the Starlink 10-14 mission with 28 satellites lifted off from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station’s Space Launch Complex 40 at 7:49 a.m.
The first-stage booster made its 23rd flight with a recovery landing downrange on the droneship Just Read the Instructions.
It marked the ninth launch in August for the Space Coast with eight from SpaceX and one from United Launch Alliance. Among those launches were the final crewed mission from Florida this year, the Aug. 1 launch of Crew-11 , and the return of Boeing’s X-37B mini space shuttle to space for a classified Space Force mission. ULA’s lone mission was its first national security flight