SpaceX introduced 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 wearing the Starlink batch lifted off from Cape Canaveral House Pressure Station Friday, at 10:19 p.m. EST (1519 GMT), towards the sunny, blue sky of Florida’s House Coast.About 8 mins into flight, following degree 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.
A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket introduced 23 extra of the corporate’s Starlink web satellites to orbit from Florida’s House Coast on Friday (Feb. 21). (Symbol credit score: SpaceX)The a success touchdown wraps up the twenty first flight for B1076, in line with a SpaceX, and its 12th Starlink undertaking.Falcon 9’s higher degree persevered its flight, wearing the 23 satellites into low-Earth orbit. SpaceX’s Starlink constellation these days totals round 7,000 satellites spanning around the globe to offer low-latency, high-speed web to SpaceX’s shoppers.
The primary-stage SpaceX Falcon 9 booster, B1076, lands on A Shortfall of Gravitas droneship within the Atlantic Ocean on Feb. 21, 2025. (Symbol credit score: SpaceX)This release used to be SpaceX’s twenty third of 2025, together with on Starship release from the corporate’s Starbase, Texas, release web page. Lately’s undertaking additionally marks the sixteenth Starlink release for SpaceX thus far this 12 months.No less than 4 extra Starlink launches are scheduled to release sooner than the top of February, in addition to Starship’s 8th check flight, these days anticipated no previous than Feb. 26.Breaking area information, the newest updates on rocket launches, skywatching occasions and extra!
