Oct. 7 (UPI) — SpaceX hit a milestone on Tuesday after dozens of new Starlink satellites were launched into orbit in its 130th launch this year.
The Elon Musk-owned SpaceX added that its workhorse Falcon 9 rocket saw its 126th flight of 2025 as the Starlink 10-59 mission took off in the early morning hours.
The mission adds 28 more satellites to the growing megaconstellation of more than 8,500 Starlink devices flying in low Earth orbit in order to expand global broadband Internet access.
SpaceX’s Falcon 9 saw liftoff at 2:46 a.m. EDT from Cape Canaveral Space Force Station in Florida, after persistent daily storms over the Atlantic Ocean and central Florida put a wrench in launch efforts over the last week.
It’s first stage arrived as planned less than nine minutes later in the Atlantic Ocean on SpaceX’s A Shortfall of Gravitas drone ship.
Meanwhile, it was the eighth launch and landing for the designated B1090 booster.