{"id":9703,"date":"2025-11-11T00:51:26","date_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:51:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/florida-annual-launch-record-broken-with-late-night-starlink-flight\/"},"modified":"2025-11-11T00:51:26","modified_gmt":"2025-11-10T16:51:26","slug":"florida-annual-launch-record-broken-with-late-night-starlink-flight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/florida-annual-launch-record-broken-with-late-night-starlink-flight\/","title":{"rendered":"Florida annual launch record broken with late-night Starlink flight"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71437\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71437\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71437\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110_Starlink_6-87_streak_JP-1.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"583\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110_Starlink_6-87_streak_JP-1.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110_Starlink_6-87_streak_JP-1-300x200.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110_Starlink_6-87_streak_JP-1-768x511.jpeg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71437\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A long-exposure shot of SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket blasting off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station on Nov. 10, 2025. Image: John Pisani \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Nov. 10, 11:30 p.m. EST (04130UTC): SpaceX confirms deployment of the 29 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>The busiest spaceport in the world broke another record on Monday night. SpaceX\u2019s Falcon 9 rocket was the 94th launch for an orbital class rocket from Florida, surpassing the total achieved in 2024.<\/p>\n<p>The total was a combination of Falcon 9 rockets as well as Atlas 5 and Vulcan rockets from United Launch Alliance and one New Glenn flight from Blue Origin.<\/p>\n<p>The Monday night mission that tipped the scales into the record books was Starlink 6-87, which added another 29 broadband internet satellites to the company\u2019s mega-constellation in low Earth orbit. SpaceX accomplished liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 10:21 p.m. EST (0321 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>The launch was originally scheduled about five hours earlier in the day, but it was pushed later because the Federal Aviation Administration is limiting commercial launches to between the hours of 10 p.m. and 6 a.m., due to the shortage of air traffic controllers during the government shutdown. Launches add significantly to the workload of air traffic controllers due to the need to divert flights away from the launch danger area.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/7GqmiF--2nY\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 60 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window thanks to a \u201cstrong cold front\u201d moving across the state on Monday. Meteorologists citied concerns from strong winds at liftoff as well as upper-level wind shear and somewhat questionable weather in the booster recovery zone near the Bahamas.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe front itself will cross the region Monday morning, ushering in a blast of strong northwesterly winds and chilly temps that will linger through at least the first half of Tuesday,\u201d launch weather officers wrote. \u201cAs a result, the main concern for the primary launch window will be liftoff winds.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX used B1096 for the Starlink 6-87 mission, one of the newer Falcon 9 boosters in its fleet. Monday\u2019s launch was its third flight following KF-01 for Amazon\u2019s Project Kuiper and NASA\u2019s IMAP rideshare mission earlier this year.<\/p>\n<p>Less than eight minutes after liftoff, B1096 performed an autonomous landing attempt on the drone ship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions\u2019. This was the 141st landing on this vessel and the 532nd booster landing to date.<\/p>\n<h4>Records are made to be broken<\/h4>\n<p>For more than half a decade, Florida\u2019s spaceport, a combination of both NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center and Cape Canaveral Space Force Station, have been steadily increasing the number of orbital launches, thanks in large part to a yearly ramp up in flights from SpaceX.<\/p>\n<p>Between its two Falcon launch pads, Launch Complex 39A and Space Launch Complex 40, SpaceX will have launched 88 times after flying the Starlink 6-87 mission, about 95 percent of the launches from Florida\u2019s Space Coast.<\/p>\n<p><iframe id=\"twitter-widget-0\" scrolling=\"no\" frameborder=\"0\" allowtransparency=\"true\" allowfullscreen=\"true\" class=\"\" style=\"position: absolute; visibility: hidden; width: 0px; height: 0px; display: block; flex-grow: 1;\" title=\"X Post\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/embed\/Tweet.html?dnt=false&amp;embedId=twitter-widget-0&amp;features=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%3D%3D&amp;frame=false&amp;hideCard=false&amp;hideThread=false&amp;id=1978839205376655653&amp;lang=en&amp;origin=https%3A%2F%2Fspaceflightnow.com%2F2025%2F11%2F10%2Flive-coverage-spacex-to-launch-29-starlink-satellites-on-falcon-9-rocket-from-cape-canaveral-3%2F&amp;sessionId=917a9be2766dc907fa25dc322fbd977a81ef23b0&amp;theme=light&amp;widgetsVersion=6a3ad42b224df%3A1778106238597&amp;width=550px\" data-tweet-id=\"1978839205376655653\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-twitter-extracted-i1782461670762312517=\"true\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Falcon launch #130 for 2025. The rolling 365 launch total is 166 launches!<\/p>\n<p>Notable records from this morning:<br \/>\n* Fastest launch to launch from the same American Launch Pad at 55 Hrs, 29 minutes and 9 seconds<br \/>\n* Fastest TE roll in to hangar for booster integration to launch at 12\u2026 https:\/\/t.co\/kgrHZ7yXD5<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Kiko Dontchev (@TurkeyBeaver) October 16, 2025<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<p><script async=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>The impact of some of those launches was reflected in October\u2019s monthly CEO report delivered by Capt. John Murray, to the Port Canaveral Commission on Oct. 22. He noted that for all of Fiscal Year 2025 (Oct. 1, 2024 \u2013 Sept. 30, 2025) that there were 90 boosters brought into port along with 194 payload fairings, which he described as \u201cquite significant.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Port Canaveral doesn\u2019t explicitly break down its listing of \u201cSpace Component Recoveries\u201d in its report. Presumably, these numbers reflect just SpaceX components, but Spaceflight Now did reach out to Port Canaveral to seek clarification.<\/p>\n<p>The ramp up in launch cadence required both increased agility on the part of launch operators, like SpaceX and United Launch Alliance as well as from those who manage the Eastern Range.<\/p>\n<p>Ahead of the Aug. 4, 2022, launches of both the SBIRS GEO-6 and the Korea Pathfinder Lunar Orbiter by ULA and SpaceX respectively, Spaceflight Now Reporter Will Robinson-Smith spoke with members of the 1st Range Ops Squadron (1 ROPS) in his capacity as a reporter for Spectrum News 13 at the time.<\/p>\n<p>Back then, a double launch day was something that hadn\u2019t been achieved in Florida since the 1960s. U.S. Space Force 2nd Lt. Christian Jackson said that a ramped up launch cadence was \u201csomething that we train for every week\u201d in preparation for a more airport-like flight environment.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cJust a few years ago, they were launching maybe 12 rockets in a year. We\u2019ve got about 60 plus on the manifest to finish out this year and there are hopes of possibly doing up to 100 launches next year,\u201d Jackson said in 2022. \u201cSo, if we want to reach those numbers, we\u2019re definitely going to get to that point where we\u2019re launching over one in a day.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>There have been many double launch days since then, with the most recent being September 25, which saw the launches of the Starlink 10-15 mission on a Falcon 9 rocket and the Kuiper Atlas 03 mission on an Atlas 5 551 rocket.<\/p>\n<p>Leadership at the Cape has been working to increase payload processing facility capacity to allow for further ramp up of missions, with facilities like one dedicated to Amazon\u2019s Kuiper satellites coming online earlier this year.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_71435\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71435\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71435\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110-Cape-launches-by-year.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"493\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110-Cape-launches-by-year.jpeg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110-Cape-launches-by-year-300x169.jpeg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110-Cape-launches-by-year-768x432.jpeg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/11\/20251110-Cape-launches-by-year-678x381.jpeg 678w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71435\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Orbital launches by year from Cape Canaveral, including failures. 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