{"id":9756,"date":"2025-09-05T01:46:56","date_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:46:56","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp-productionenv-bjg9h2g2bgg5b8aa.southeastasia-01.azurewebsites.net\/news\/spacex-aces-500th-falcon-booster-landing-amid-sunrise-starlink-mission\/"},"modified":"2025-09-05T01:46:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-04T17:46:56","slug":"spacex-aces-500th-falcon-booster-landing-amid-sunrise-starlink-mission","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/news\/spacex-aces-500th-falcon-booster-landing-amid-sunrise-starlink-mission\/","title":{"rendered":"SpaceX aces 500th Falcon booster landing amid sunrise Starlink mission"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_70788\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70788\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><img fetchpriority=\"high\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70788\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_AB-2.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"644\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_AB-2.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_AB-2-300x221.jpg 300w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_AB-2-768x565.jpg 768w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_AB-2-80x60.jpg 80w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70788\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on the Starlink 10-57 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><em><strong>Update Sept. 5, 9:40 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites.<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n<p>SpaceX completed its 500th recovery of a Falcon booster during a Friday morning flight supporting its Starlink satellite constellation. The Falcon 9 rocket roared away from Launch Complex 39A at 8:32 a.m. EDT (1232 UTC).<\/p>\n<p>The Starlink 10-57 mission flew on a north-easterly trajectory upon leaving the pad at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center, with the rocket soaring past and through the clouds over Florida\u2019s Space Coast. Nearly 8.5 minutes after takeoff, the Falcon 9 booster supporting this mission, tail number 1069, safely landed on the drone ship, \u2018Just Read the Instructions\u2019 (JRTI), off the coast of South Carolina.<span class=\"Apple-converted-space\">&nbsp;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"YouTube video player\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FUf14cPgFiI?si=bnZwb9hFIMBdd0oB\" width=\"678\" height=\"381\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><span data-mce-type=\"bookmark\" style=\"display: inline-block; width: 0px; overflow: hidden; line-height: 0;\" class=\"mce_SELRES_start\">\ufeff<\/span><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>For the launch window, the 45th Weather Squadron forecast a 70 percent chance for favorable weather. Meteorologists were tracking the potential interference from cumulus clouds, but that proved to not be a showstopper for the launch.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDeep atmospheric moisture combined with a stalled boundary across South Florida will locally result in periodic onshore-moving showers over the next few days,\u201d launch weather officers wrote on Thursday. \u201cThe timing and extent of these showers at any given time remains ambiguous, however the pattern is unlikely to support organized convection during the morning hours aside from over the Atlantic waters.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>B1069 launched this mission on its 27th trip to space and back. Some of its previous missions include CRS-24, Eutelsat\u2019s Hotbird 13F satellite and 22 batches of Starlink satellites.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s landing on JRTI was the 135th recovery for this vessel. It was last used during Sunday\u2019s Starlink 10-14 mission on its 30th mission supporting a booster landing this year.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX uses one other droneship on the East Coast, \u2018A Shortfall of Gravitas,\u2019 which was making its way back to Port Canaveral in Brevard County after supporting the Starlink 10-22 mission on Wednesday.<\/p>\n<p>SpaceX is aiming for at least 170 launches using its Falcon rockets by the end of the year. Friday\u2019s launch will be number 111.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_70789\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-70789\" style=\"width: 876px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-70789\" src=\"http:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_MC-1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"876\" height=\"1314\" srcset=\"https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_MC-1.jpg 876w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_MC-1-200x300.jpg 200w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_MC-1-683x1024.jpg 683w, https:\/\/spaceflightnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/20250905_Starlink_10-57_MC-1-768x1152.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 876px) 100vw, 876px\"><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-70789\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket seemingly punches a hole through the clouds during its ascent from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center during the Starlink 10-57 mission on Sept. 5, 2025. Image: Michael Cain \/ Spaceflight Now<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A SpaceX Falcon 9 rocket lifts off from Launch Complex 39A at NASA\u2019s Kennedy Space Center on the Starlink 10-57 mission. Image: Adam Bernstein \/ Spaceflight Now Update Sept. 5, 9:40 a.m. EDT: SpaceX confirms deployment of the 28 Starlink satellites. SpaceX completed its 500th recovery of a Falcon booster during a Friday morning flight [&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":[760,479,993,316,440,994],"class_list":["post-9756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-b1069","tag-falcon-9","tag-just-read-the-instructions","tag-spacex","tag-starlink","tag-starlink-10-57"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756"}],"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=9756"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9756\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9756"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9756"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/starpath.global\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9756"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}