{"id":9732,"date":"2025-10-06T19:11:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:11:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-on-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025\/"},"modified":"2025-10-06T19:11:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-06T11:11:23","slug":"spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-on-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-launches-falcon-9-rocket-on-90th-starlink-mission-of-2025\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX launches Falcon 9 rocket on 90th Starlink mission of 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_71077\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-71077\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-71077\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_10-59_liftoff.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"584\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_10-59_liftoff.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_10-59_liftoff-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/20251007_Starlink_10-59_liftoff-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-71077\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 10-59 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Oct. 7, 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of 28 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from Florida in more than a week in the predawn hours of Tuesday morning. The launch gap was highlighted by a run of persistent, daily storms in Central Florida and over the Atlantic Ocean.<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 10-59 mission added 28 more broadband internet satellites into the growing megaconstellation. Prior to this launch, SpaceX has more than 8,500 Starlink satellites in low Earth orbit, according to astronomer an expert orbital tracker, Jonathan McDowell.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX executed liftoff from pad 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station at 2:46 a.m. EDT (0646 UTC).<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Xyt7ydw8C5o\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>The 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 65 percent chance for favorable weather during the launch window. Meteorologists\u2019 primary concerns are related to liftoff winds and cumulus clouds.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cAlthough deep tropical moisture will likely enhance shower activity during the day, that activity should diminish by window opening and the main concern for Tuesday morning\u2019s launch attempt is liftoff winds, which may periodically exceed threshold,\u201d launch weather officers wrote.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX used the Falcon 9 first stage booster B1090, which launched for an eighth time. Its previous missions include Crew-10, CRS-33 and Bandwagon-3.<\/p>\n<p>A little more than eight minutes after liftoff, B1090 performed an automated landing on the drone ship, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas.\u2019 This was the 127th landing on this vessel and the 515th booster landing to date.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Space Launch Complex 40 (SLC-40) at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station to begin the Starlink 10-59 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein \/ Spaceflight Now Update Oct. 7, 4 a.m. EDT (0800 UTC): SpaceX confirmed deployment of 28 Starlink satellites. SpaceX launched its first Falcon 9 rocket launch from [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[479,316,440,964],"class_list":["post-9732","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-falcon-9","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-10-59"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9732"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9732\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9732"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9732"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9732"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}